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" I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute. "

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" We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. "

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" Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. "

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" It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer. "

" Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. "

" 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 that is the end forever. "

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" The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. "

" The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter. "

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" Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. "

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" Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. "

" All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling. "

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" That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it. "

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" Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools. "

" The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason. "

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" 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 thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him. "

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