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Blaise Pascal

Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.
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Deceive Human Life Men Ourselves Presence
Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
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Investment Soul Truth Yourself
Faith is a gift of God.
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Faith Gift God
I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn’t than live as if he doesn’t exist to find out He does.
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Existence God Himself Live Myself
Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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Children One Liner Way Wisdom
Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
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Greatness Men Strange
Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!
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Greatness Myself Power Yourself
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
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Establishment Love Spiritual Time Truth
We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.
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Men Seek Truth Value
There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
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Desire Enough Light See
We never love a person, but only qualities.
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Deep Love Person Quality
The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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Act Inspirational Strength Wisdom
Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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Ability Men Trouble
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Extraordinary Greatness Ordinary Wisdom
It’s not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It’s those who write the songs.
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Law Song Worth Writing
We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
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Eyes People Reality Satisfaction

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