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There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him. (Blaise Pascal)
The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it. View quote
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The gospel to me is simply irresistible. View quote
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Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same. View quote
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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience. View quote
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Vanity is but the surface. View quote
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Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. View quote
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Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves. View quote
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We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it. View quote
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Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. View quote
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Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established. (Blaise Pascal)
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. View quote
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Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. View quote
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It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. View quote
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Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable. View quote
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The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life. View quote
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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before. View quote
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The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason. View quote
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The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. View quote
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As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all. View quote
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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 our arms to the Redeemer. (Blaise Pascal)
The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him. View quote
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We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. View quote
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Men blaspheme what they do not know. View quote
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We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it. View quote
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