We like to be deceived.
BLAISE PASCALTruth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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We never love a person, but only qualities.
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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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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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Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?
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People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
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Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
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Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
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I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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