"All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing:..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal
All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.
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“Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.”
“You always admire what you really don't understand.”
“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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“When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.”
“Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'.”
“Consolation for unhappiness can often be found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy.”
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“Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!”
“Every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he's not, he's a liar. Some men are cowards but they fight the same as the brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watchingmen fight who are just as scared as they are. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.”
“There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.”