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| Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. | | Mind | |
| Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk. | | Vice | |
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| That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it. | | God | |
| The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. | | Fame | |
| The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. | | Uncategorized | |
| The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. | | Uncategorized | |
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| The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. | | Originality | |
| The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways. | | Uncategorized | |
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| The heart has reasons which reason knows nothing of. | | Uncategorized | |
| The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way. | | Uncategorized | |
| The inside of a human being is hollow and full of rubish in the mean time | | Uncategorized | |
| The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him. | | God; Knowledge | |
| The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery without that of God causes despair. The knowledge of Jesus Christ constitutes the middle course, because in Him we find both God and our misery. | | Knowledge | |
| The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it. | | Uncategorized | |
| The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. | | Beauty; Work | |
| The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first. | | Uncategorized | |
| The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. | | Uncategorized | |
