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- 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…
- Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise,…
- 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…
- Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes…
- The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.
- Quand on voit le style naturel, on est tout e tonne et ravi, car on s'attendait de voir un auteur, et on trouve un homme.…
- L'homme n'est qu'un sujet plein d'erreur, naturelle et ineffa c° able sans la gra" ce. Man is nothing but a subject full of natural error…
- Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.
- L'homme n'est ni ange ni be" te, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la be" te. Man is neither angel nor…
- Quelque e tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only capable of one…
- En un mot, l'homme conna|"t qu'il est mise rable: il est donc mise rable, puisqu'il l'est; mais il est bien grand, puisqu'il le conna|"t. In…
- There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the…
- All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
- Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
- There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
- Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
- All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
- Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and…
- The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
- Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a…
- The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
- The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
- Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
- Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
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