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Great and small suffer the same mishaps.

Blaise Pascal

Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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Children One Liner Way Wisdom
If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.
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Believe God Life Philosophy Spiritual
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Extraordinary Greatness Ordinary Wisdom
All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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Inspirational Man Misery Peace
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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Divine Human Love Religion
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
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God Heart Spiritual
Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
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Exception Happiness Search
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
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
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Humble Humility People Praise Thinking
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
Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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God Happiness Ourselves Spiritual
Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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Cheat Foundation
Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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Confusion Unity
Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
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Fear Yourself
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
Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
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God Happiness Ourselves

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