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When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
Blaise Pascal
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Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
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Patriotism
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
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Faith
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Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
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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.
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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.
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Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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Religion
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If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
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Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.
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Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
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