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And 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?

Blaise Pascal

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
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Curiosity Pride Talk Vanity
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
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Humble Humility People Praise Thinking
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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Divine Human Love Religion
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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Discover Intelligence Men Reality
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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Attraction Belief People
What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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Difference God Himself Love
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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Lying Men Thinking
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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Love Reason Understand
How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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Heart Hollow Men
We like to be deceived.
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One Liner Trust
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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Live Man Reason Suffering
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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Believe Faith Life Light
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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Greatness Inspirational Love Passion
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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Establishment Love Spiritual Time Truth
Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
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Fear Yourself
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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Business Men Passion Tolerance

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