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All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
– Blaise Pascal

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  3. All business opportunities stem from someone else’s inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  4. The point of meditating is not to learn to sit quietly in a room. The point is to live that way in the world. – Chris Matakas
  5. 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
  6. Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare it is the pleasure even of kings. – Blaise Pascal
  7. Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back – Blaise Pascal
  8. 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
  9. When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing. – Blaise Pascal
  10. I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise. – Blaise Pascal
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  13. Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything. – Blaise Pascal
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  15. The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first. – Blaise Pascal
  16. If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. – Blaise Pascal
  17. God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality. – Blaise Pascal
  18. Men are so inevitably mad that not to be mad would be to give a mad twist to madness. – Blaise Pascal
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  20. 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
  21. Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. – Blaise Pascal
  22. Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. – Blaise Pascal
  23. Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism. – Blaise Pascal
  24. If man studied himself, he would see how incapable he is of going further. – Blaise Pascal
  25. Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it. – Blaise Pascal
  26. 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
  27. Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait. – Blaise Pascal
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  29. Eloquence.-” We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be drawn from the true. – Blaise Pascal
  30. 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
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  38. Quit trying so hard and sit quietly with yourself and you will see that there are no demands within you. – Bryant McGill
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