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The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

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

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The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

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Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

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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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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

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It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

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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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The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

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We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

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If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

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Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

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In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

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To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

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Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

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Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

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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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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

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

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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

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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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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

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The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

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Men blaspheme what they do not know.

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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

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The self is hateful.

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Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.

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One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

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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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A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

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