It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

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

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I have made this letter long because i have not the time to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal in Lettres Proviciales (1657)
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We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

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Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

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All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.

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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

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All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

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