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To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
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We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
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To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.
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As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
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It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
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With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
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The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.
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What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
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Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
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In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
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