Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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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 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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There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
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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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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
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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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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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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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All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
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All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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