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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too.
Kind words produce their images on men's souls.
The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
Man governs himself more by impulse than reason
It is not certain that everything is uncertain.
The war existing between the senses and reason.
The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.
Our natures lie in motion, without which we die.
The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
Love has no age as it is always renewing itself.
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.
I should not be a Christian but for the miracles.
To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.
To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.
Things are always at their best in their beginning.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.
Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is.
Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.
Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.
The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.
There is a God-shaped hole in the life of every man.
We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.
When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.
All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.
The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism.
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.
If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.
Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.
Which is the more believable of the two, Moses or China?
The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.