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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Blaise Pascal

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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Deceive Human Life Men Ourselves Presence
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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Evil Inspirational Religious Sad
We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.
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Men Seek Truth Value
How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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Heart Hollow Men
Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
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Admire Conceal Deed Goodness
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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Existence Faith God Heart Reason
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
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
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Creation God Man Spiritual
The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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Affection Ocean Pebble
The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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Act Inspirational Strength Wisdom
Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
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Death Life Suicide
Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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Confusion Unity
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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Human Limitation Wisdom
It’s not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It’s those who write the songs.
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Law Song Worth Writing
All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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Practice Writing
When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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