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" It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance. "

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" Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. "

" The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. "

" If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. "

" The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit. "

" Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. "

" In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. "

" There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too. "

" Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. "

" A mind enclosed in language is in prison. "

" The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest. "

" A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless. "

" The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry. "

" In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish. "

" To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. "

" Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. "

" The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know. "

" Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers. "

" Humility is attentive patience. "

" For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation. "

" What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. "

" To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. "

" To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves. "

" I can, therefore I am. "

" Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge. "

" Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. "

" With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed. "

" We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise. "