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The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
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Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
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Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
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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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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
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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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The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.
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The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
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The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
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The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
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The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
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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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