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

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

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  6. Best to live and love by the maxim that ‘silence in the face of evil is evil itself’, but when it’s evil fighting evil, let evil kill itself. – Criss Jami
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  10. All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone. – Blaise Pascal
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  19. If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. – Blaise Pascal
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  22. Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. – Blaise Pascal
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