Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
BLAISE PASCALGreat and small suffer the same mishaps.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
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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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We never love a person, but only qualities.
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
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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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If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it’s possible, in everything.
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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
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