Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
BLAISE PASCALKind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
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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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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
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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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What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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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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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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There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
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