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- All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
- All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
- Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
- The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
- Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
- The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and…
- Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
- There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who…
- As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to…
- In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the…
- The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must…
- Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.
- All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
- All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to…
- Just as I do not know where I came from, so I do not know where I am going. All I know is that when…
- Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from young people whose…
- If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he…
- Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when…
- When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can…
- What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all…
- Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy…
- We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it.…
- ...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if…
- If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
- What is man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, all in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything
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