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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Blaise Pascal
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Blaise Pascal
Age: 39 †
Born: 1623
Born: June 19
Died: 1662
Died: August 19
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Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause believers to affirm. Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, few doubtingly of scepticism.
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To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.
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He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.
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