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Blaise Pascal Quote

“I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.”

— Blaise Pascal

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Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

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

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