Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
BLAISE PASCALWhat a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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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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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
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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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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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Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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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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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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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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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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Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!
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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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