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?
BLAISE PASCALPeople almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
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Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men’s souls, and a beautiful image it is.
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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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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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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.
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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
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The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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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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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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