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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

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Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

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Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. B...

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We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our e...

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Undoubtedly equality of goods is just; but, being unable to cause might to obey justice, men has made it just to obey might. Unable to strengt...

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Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselve...

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There is no shame in man giving in to pain, but it is shameful for him to give in to pleasure. This is not because pain comes to us from outsi...

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The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end fore...

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On mourra seul. We shall die alone.

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Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that there should be me...

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Man is but a reed, the feeblest one in nature; but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him—a vapor, a dr...

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Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. The heart has its reasons which reason does not know of.

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Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who ...

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It is the heart which experiences God, and not the reason. This, then, is faith: God felt by the heart, not by the reason.

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Cleopatra's nose: had it been shorter, the whole aspect of the world would have been altered.

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As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them...

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A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.

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Not to care for philosophy is to be a true philospher.

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The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.

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Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.

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Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him. Sports

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It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.

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He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.

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Men never do evil so completely or cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

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If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.

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Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known. Religion

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Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

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The property of power is to protect.

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We must learn our limits. We are all something but none of us are everything.

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