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Blaise Pascal

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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.”— Blaise Pascal
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“Imagination decides everything.”— Blaise Pascal
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“Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see it is above, not against them.”— Blaise Pascal
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“Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.”— Blaise Pascal
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“The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.”— Blaise Pascal
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“The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.”— Blaise Pascal
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“It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.”— Blaise Pascal
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“He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.”— Blaise Pascal
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“Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.”— Blaise Pascal
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“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.”— Blaise Pascal
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“The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.”— Blaise Pascal
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“Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.”— Blaise Pascal
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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.”— Blaise Pascal
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“In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.”— Blaise Pascal
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“When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.”— Blaise Pascal
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“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”— Blaise Pascal
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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.”— Blaise Pascal
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“If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.”— Blaise Pascal
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“Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.”— Blaise Pascal
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“We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.”— Blaise Pascal
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“Men blaspheme what they do not know.”— Blaise Pascal
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“The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.”— Blaise Pascal
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“Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.”— Blaise Pascal
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“Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.”— Blaise Pascal
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“Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.”— Blaise Pascal