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- Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from…
- All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.
- The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.
- Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.
- All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.
- All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
- We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian…
- The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us to…
- How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.
- There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them.
- Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.
- We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism.
- Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
- When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discovered…
- Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our…
- Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he should…
- All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.
- Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is…
- I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give…
- The eternal Being is forever if he is at all.
- Tout notre raisonnement se re duit a' ce der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling.
- Le silence est la plus grande perse cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint was…
- Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it…
- All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
- If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.
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