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" Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. "
Blaise Pascal
Thinking
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" We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it. "
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" Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death. "
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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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" The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. "
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" That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it. "
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" Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. "
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" Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. "
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" Love has reasons which reason cannot understand. "
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" Men blaspheme what they do not know. "
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" If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists. "
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" Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. "
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" Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. "
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