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We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#conceal #contradiction #disguise #duplicity #falsehood

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#against #be happy #death #fight #happy

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#heaven #hell #life #only #thing

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#friends #knew #men #others #say

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#being #everything #good #his #lost

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#pleases #struggle #us #victory

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#falsity #lack #nor #sign #truth

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#great ones #indicates #indifference #inversion #matters

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#behind #each #few #friend #friendships

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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