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| Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. |
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| Curiosity is only in vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling. |
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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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| Despite the sight of all the miseries which affect us and hold us by the throat we have an irrepressible instinct which bears us up |
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| Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself |
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| Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. |
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| Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it IS true, you've gained God, heaven, and everything else. If it's false, you've lost nothing, but you've had a good life marked by peace and the illusion that ultimately, everything makes sense. If you bet that Christianity is not true, and it's false, you've lost nothing. But if you bet that it's false, and it turns out to be true, you've lost everything and you get to spend eternity in hell. |
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| Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. |
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| Evil is easy, and has infinite forms. |
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| Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them. |
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| Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other. |
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| Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them. |
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| Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. |
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| Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. |
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| Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism |
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| For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it? |
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| Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force |
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