"Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing……" — Blaise Pascal
"Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room."
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525 Quotes by Blaise Pascal
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In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see…
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If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to…
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All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in…
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Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.
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It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.
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For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a…
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Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
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I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
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Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their…
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Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and…
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If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands…
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