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| Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. |
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| Two extremes: to exclude reason, to admit reason only. |
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| Two kinds of persons know Him: those who have a humble heart, and who love lowliness, whatever kind of intellect they may have, high or low; and those who have sufficient understanding to see the truth, whatever opposition they may have to it. |
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| Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience. |
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| Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this |
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| Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. |
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| Venerable, because it has perfect knowledge of man; lovable because it promises the true good. |
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| We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are |
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| We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. |
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| We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by reasons which have occurred to others |
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| We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it. |
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| We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them |
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| We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. |
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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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| We must learn our limits. We are all something but none of us are everything. |
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| We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so. |
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| We never, then, love a person, but only qualities |
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