"One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts."
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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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"One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better."
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"Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care."
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"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed."
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"Man's greatness lies in his power of thought."
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"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal"
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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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"There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous."
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"Faith is a gift of God."
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"We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth."
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"Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves."
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"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."
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"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't."
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"If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the lost effort is negligible in comparison to what is at risk in not seeking God in the first place."
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"There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus."
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"The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts."
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"Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known."
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"Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him."
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"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone."
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