Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.


Blaise Pascal

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Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
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And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.
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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
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A jester, a bad character. [Fr., Diseur de bon mots, mauvais caractere.]
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We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
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We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us...
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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
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Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about e...
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People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by other...
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One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of lif...
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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which h...
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Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
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Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force.
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Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea ...
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Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired : even I who write this, a...
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The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its ori...
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Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and...
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What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admi...
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Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous...
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The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thu...
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A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.
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Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction
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The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent ple...
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The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosp...
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Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convin...
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It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out...
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The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
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We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by reasons which have o...
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Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except throug...
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