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• Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.

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  Beautiful, Meaningful, Kindness

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• No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth

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  Philosophical, Men, Taught

  Blaise Pascal (1962). “Pensées”

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• All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.

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  Prayer, Each Day, Rooms

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• What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark.

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  Divinity, Bears, Earth

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• All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.

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  Practice, Maxims, Remains

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• 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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  Men, Hypocrisy, Doe

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• Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real.

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  Real, Reason

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• It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.

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  Miracle, Impossible, Reasonable

  Blaise Pascal (1950). “Pensées”

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• There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition

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  Light, Desire, Obscurity

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.118, Courier Corporation

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• Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints.

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  Death, Jesus, Joy

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 176, 1895.

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• Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it

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  Reason, Method, Knows

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• The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.

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  Men, Inability, Rooms

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• 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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  Love, Inspirational, Passion

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• All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.

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  Men, World, Rooms

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• If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.

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  Want, Opinion, Ifs

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• No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.

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  Believe, Heart, Men

  Blaise Pascal, Thomas Adam (1833). “Thoughts on religion”, p.38

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• Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.

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  Cheating, Foundation, Mutual

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• Imagination decides everything.

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  Inspirational, Teacher, Imagination

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

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  Men, Littles, Strange

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• To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

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  Philosophy, Ridicule

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• It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

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  Math, Intelligence, Uncertain

  Blaise Pascal (1850). “The Thoughts on religion, and evidences of Christianity, of Pascal; tr., with intr., notes, etc., by G. Pearce”, p.99

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• We never love a person, but only qualities.

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  Love, Quality, Persons

  Blaise Pascal (1946). “Pascal's Pensées, or, Thoughts on religion”

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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?

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  Reign, Truth Is, Crime

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from young people whose lives are all noise, diversions, and thoughts for the future? But take away their diversion and you will see them bored to extinction. Then they feel their nullity without recognizing it, for nothing could be more wretched than to be intolerably depressed as soon as one is reduced to introspection with no means of diversion.

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  Mean, Vanity, People

  Blaise Pascal (2008). “Human Happiness”, Penguin Group USA

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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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  Christian, Men, Two

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