Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
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It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.
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Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point.
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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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Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
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When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.
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Little things console us because little things afflict us.
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Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.
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Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.
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However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.
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The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.
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We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils are infinite, and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being forever either annihilated or unhappy.
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Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.
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Il est non seulement impossible, mais inutile de conna|"tre Dieu sans Je sus-Christ. It is not only impossible, but also useless to recognize God without Jesus.
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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.
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Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure, and second, that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.
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There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.
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He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.
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We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.
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By thought I embrace the universe.
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Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.
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Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.