Arranging Quote by Blaise Pascal

“We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.”

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

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