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I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
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I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
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I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.
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He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
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Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
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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.
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For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.
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Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
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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.
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Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
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Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.
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Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
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Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
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By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn.
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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
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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 at all.
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