Hope to live Quote by Blaise Pascal

““Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.””

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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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