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All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.
– Blaise Pascal

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  1. All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone. – Blaise Pascal
  2. Sometimes, there’s no one around to tell you to be quiet… to be very, very quiet. Sometimes you need to be quiet when you’re all alone. – Jay Asher
  3. If you want to shine, sit before a lamp; if you want to shine brighter, sit before a fire; but if you want to shine the brightest, sit before a sage. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  4. Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare it is the pleasure even of kings. – Blaise Pascal
  5. Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back – Blaise Pascal
  6. There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature… and the thing which pleases us. – Blaise Pascal
  7. When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing. – Blaise Pascal
  8. I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise. – Blaise Pascal
  9. Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity. – Blaise Pascal
  10. Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. – Blaise Pascal
  11. Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything. – Blaise Pascal
  12. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature. – Blaise Pascal
  13. The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first. – Blaise Pascal
  14. If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. – Blaise Pascal
  15. God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality. – Blaise Pascal
  16. Men are so inevitably mad that not to be mad would be to give a mad twist to madness. – Blaise Pascal
  17. Kind words produce their images on men’s souls. – Blaise Pascal
  18. Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. – Blaise Pascal
  19. Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. – Blaise Pascal
  20. Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. – Blaise Pascal
  21. Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism. – Blaise Pascal
  22. If man studied himself, he would see how incapable he is of going further. – Blaise Pascal
  23. Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it. – Blaise Pascal
  24. People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others. – Blaise Pascal
  25. Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait. – Blaise Pascal
  26. The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first. – Blaise Pascal
  27. Eloquence.-” We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be drawn from the true. – Blaise Pascal
  28. Sit with me, and I’ll not be alone.Hold my hand, and I’ll not feel alone.Cry with me, and I’ll no longer suffer alone. – Richelle E Goodrich
  29. No guest rooms.- I shake my head resolutely. -œI want to be in a room room. A lived-in room. – Lauren Oliver
  30. You cry in your room. I cry in my room. Mom cries in Mom’s room. And in the morning everyone pretends like they never cried once in their life. – Natasha Friend
  31. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. – Gabrielle Zevin
  32. We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for a moment that we’re not alone. – Orson Welles
  33. Being a visionary is a blessing and a curse, you’re blessed to see things other people are not able to see but you are cursed to sit in it alone – David Banner
  34. Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, ifhe is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast. – Hermann Hesse
  35. I’m good when I’m alone. I’m comfortable when I’m alone. I can sit and do lots of things all by myself. Sex included. – Johnny Weir
  36. I’d prefer to be alone by myself,than alone in a room full of people. – Anthony T Hincks
  37. To be knowledgeable, sit before scholars; to be wise, sit before life. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  38. We sit, silent, the comfortable way only good friends can sit. – Alex Flinn
  39. Governments stand because people sit; if people stand, governments will sit! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  40. Are you going to sit or are you afraid I’ll suck your blood?--œNo, I am not afraid.--œThen come sit next to me.- ~ Trent and Kiara: Scarred – Amanda Leigh

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