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 PASCALThe heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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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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How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
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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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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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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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The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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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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Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
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Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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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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All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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