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- To speak freely of mathematics, I find it the highest exercise of the spirit; but at the same time I know that it is so…
- There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either…
- The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.
- Kind words produce their images on men's souls.
- All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.
- Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of Nature; and from…
- [Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of…
- All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.
- Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
- All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.
- I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can…
- A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.
- Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that religion is not…
- Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.
- Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.
- When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad Christian than to…
- 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.
- What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy
- If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this,…
- The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are…
- All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
- (Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.
- We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we…
- If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.
- On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at court or at war, from…
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