Our imagination so magnifies the present, because we are continually thinking about it, and so reduces eternity, because we do not think about it, th… - Blaise Pascal
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Our imagination so magnifies the present, because we are continually thinking about it, and so reduces eternity, because we do not think about it, that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity, and all this is so strongly rooted within us that all our reason cannot save us from it.
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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, logician, physicist and theologian.
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Louis de Montalte
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Amos Dettonville
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Salomon de Tultie
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Paskal Blez
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Happiness is neither within us only, or without us; it is the union of ourselves with God
There is some pleasure in being on board a ship battered by storms when one is certain of not perishing. The persecutions buffeting the Church are like this.
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It is necessary to show that there is nothing so little known [as the above rules], nothing more difficult to practice, or nothing more useful and universal.
