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To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.
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The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd.
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The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.
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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
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We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the state in which we are not.
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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.
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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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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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We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the force of reason.
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Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
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I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans.
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No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth.
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I would inquire of reasonable persons whether this principle: Matter is naturally wholly incapable of thought, and this other: I think, therefore I am, are in fact the same in the mind of Descartes, and in that of St. Augustine, who said the same thing twelve hundred years before.
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Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.
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The war existing between the senses and reason.
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Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.
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The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts.
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It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.
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Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere.
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Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.
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It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.
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There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
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