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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
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All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.
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Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he should be told the truth, he shuns saying it to others; and all these moods, so inconsistent with justice and reason, have their roots in his heart.
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The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.
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Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.
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All men naturally hate one another. I hold it a fact, that if men knew exactly what one says of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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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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Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search.
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The best defense against logic is ignorance.
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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.
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No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.
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Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but one of us places it better.
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It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.
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Vanity is but the surface.
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You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.
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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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Between us, and Hell or Heaven, there is only life between the two, which is the most fragile thing in the world. Variant: Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
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