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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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Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
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The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
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We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
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All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
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There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
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Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
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Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
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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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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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Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
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