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" If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. "

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" If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists. "

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" As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all. "

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" Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else. "

" Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted. "

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" People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others. "

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" 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. "

" A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us. "

" Law, without force, is impotent. "

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" The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. "

" The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched. "

" Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones. "

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