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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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• Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.

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  Truth And Falsehood, Knows, Falsehood

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.307, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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• Look for the truth, it wants to be found.

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  Looks, Want, Found

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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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• 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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• Faith is a gift of God.

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  Gift From God

  Blaise Pascal, James M. Houston (2006). “The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent”, p.215, David C Cook

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• The best defense against logic is ignorance.

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  Ignorance, Math, Defense

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• St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities are the Serpent; the excitable desire is the Eve; and reason is the Adam. Our nature tempts us perpetually; criminal desire is often excited; but sin is not completed till reason consents.

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  Men, Temptation, Desire

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.371

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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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• 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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• 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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• To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

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  Philosophy, Ridicule

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• Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

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  Pride, Vanity, Curiosity

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

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• Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.

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  Wise, Yesterday, Achievement

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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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• 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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• 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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• Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.

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  Cheating, Foundation, Mutual

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• Man governs himself more by impulse than reason

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  Men, Reason, Impulse

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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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• There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.

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  Lying, People, People Who Lie

  Blaise Pascal (1999). “Pensées and Other Writings”, p.136, Oxford University Press, USA

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• How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!

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  Heart, Men, Hollow

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, 1669.

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• You always admire what you really don't understand.

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  Inspirational, Fake People, Appreciation

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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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