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 PASCALMost of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
More Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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Imagination decides everything.
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Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
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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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In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
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The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.
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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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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.
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Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!
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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
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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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Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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