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" We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it. "

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" There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him. "

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

" The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. "

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" The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. "

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" It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. "

" If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole? "

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

" The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him. "

" 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. "

" We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it. "

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" Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature. "

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