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The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Blaise Pascal

Strength

Virtue

Man

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

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Meaning

Words

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

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Style

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

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Love

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

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Eyes

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

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End

Uncertainty

Vanity is but the surface.

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Vanity

We never love a person, but only qualities.

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Love

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

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.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.