Distraction Quote by Blaise Pascal

““If our state were really happy, we should not need to take our minds off it in order to make ourselves happy.””

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There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.

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When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

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Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

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Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

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Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.

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We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and…

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Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.

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