Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
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More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
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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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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
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The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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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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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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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 had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.
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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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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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The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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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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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
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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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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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