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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
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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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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
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We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
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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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Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
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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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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
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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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Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
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