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• Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better.

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  Christian, Melancholy, Pleasure

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• All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

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  Sentiments, Reasoning

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• The man who knows God but does not know his own misery, becomes proud. The man who knows his own misery but does not know God, ends in despair...the knowledge of Jesus Christ constitutes the middle course because in him we find both God and our own misery. Jesus Christ is therefore a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.

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  Jesus, Humble, Pride

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• Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.

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  Math, Perfect, Damage

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• Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.

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  Struggle, Men, Anxiety

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.66, Open Road Media

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• Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

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  Would Be, Facts, Scepticism

  "Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works".

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• If ignorance were bliss, he'd be a blister

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  Ignorance, Bliss, Blisters

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• When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.

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  Doe, Too Much, Enough

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• Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.

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  Looks, Instinct, Teach

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• All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what they are: it being difficult for those who regard themselves at heart as
  equal with all men... For this it is necessary for one to forget himself, and to believe that he has some real excellence above them, in which consists this illusion that I am endeavoring to
  discover to you.

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  Real, Believe, Heart

  Blaise Pascal (1961). “Thoughts”

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• Il n'y a que deux sortes d'hommes: les uns justes, qui se croient pe cheurs; les autres pe cheurs, qui se croient justes. There are only two types of people: the virtuous who believe themselves to be sinners and the sinners who believe themselves to be virtuous.

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  Believe, Two, People

  c.1654-1662 Pense es, pt.7, no.534.

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• The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God.

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  Powerful, Night, World

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• It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

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  Obedience, Should, Strongest

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.

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  God, Religion God, Manifest

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.176, Letcetera Publishing

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• If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others.

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  May, Praise, Conviction

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• God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind.

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  Heart, Mind, Given

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• We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the state in which we are not.

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  Powerful, Giving

  "Pensées".

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• There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of doubt. The former leads to hope, as relying on God, in whom we believe; the latter inclines to despair, as not relying on God, in whom we do not believe. Persons of the one character fear to lose God; persons of the other character fear to find Him.

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  Fear, Believe, Character

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 244, 1895.

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• Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

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  Powerful, Justice, Together

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.265

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• Great and small suffer the same mishaps.

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  Greatness, Suffering, Mishaps

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• In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

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  Past, Decision, Looks

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.168, Cosimo, Inc.

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• No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.

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  Men, Perception, Doe

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone.

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  Men, Solitude, Fellow Man

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• Vanity is but the surface.

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  Vanity, Surface

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• Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is
  the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.

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  Men, Mind, Body

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.

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