Blaise pascale shorter version
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I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
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And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
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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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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
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Two kinds of persons know Him: those who have a humble heart, and who love lowliness, whatever kind of intellect they may have, high or low; and those who have sufficient understanding to see the truth, whatever opposition they may have to it.
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Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
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Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons.
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The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
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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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Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.
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True nature being lost, everything becomes its own nature; as the true good being lost, everything becomes its own true good.
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Venerable, because it has perfect knowledge of man; lovable because it promises the true good.
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This religion taught to her children what men have only been able to discover by their greatest knowledge.
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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world.
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How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.
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When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.
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Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery; with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery; in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.
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People act as though our mission were to secure the triumph of truth, whereas our sole mission is fight for it. The wish to be victorious is so natural that when it clothes itself in the desire for the triumph of truth, the two are often confused, and people imagine that they are pursuing their own.
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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.
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Instead of complaining that God had hidden Himself, you will give Him thanks for not having revealed so much of Himself; and you will also give Him thanks for not having revealed Himself to haughty sages, unworthy to know so holy a God.
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Thus our first interest and our first duty is to enlighten ourselves on this subject, whereon depends all our conduct. Therefore among those who do not believe, I make a vast difference between those who strive with all their power to inform themselves an
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Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed.
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