Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
BLAISE PASCALGreat 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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Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
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Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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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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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
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There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
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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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Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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We never love a person, but only qualities.
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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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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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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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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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