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.
BLAISE PASCALAnd is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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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 heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of, We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.
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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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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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Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with 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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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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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
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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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I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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