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It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.
Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.
Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.
Little things console us because little things afflict us.
How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us.
Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.
In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.
I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.
Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.
Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real.
We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.
If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.
It is an appalling thing to feel all one possesses drain away.
Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.
If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us.
Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.
Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists
The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.
Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.
The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.
The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
they do not know that they seek only the chase and not the quarry.
Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.
That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.
Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment.
There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs.
Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.
Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.
What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.