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Quote by Blaise Pascal
The strength of a mans virtue should not be measured by his specia

The strength of a mans virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. – Blaise Pascal

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Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature. – Blaise Pascal

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Nature
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There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous. – Blaise Pascal

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Men
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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants. – Blaise Pascal

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness. – Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

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The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. – Thorstein Veblen

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strength

I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess. – Kenneth Robert Livingstone

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strength

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength. – Saint Francis de Sales

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strength

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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again. – Wislawa Szymborska

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Historians are gossips who tease the dead. – Voltaire, Scribbling Books

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Good habits result from resisting temptation. – Proverb

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