One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.
BLAISE PASCALAll the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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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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What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of, We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.
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We like to be deceived.
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
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How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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