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

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

" We never love a person, but only qualities. "

" Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom? "

" In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious. "

" 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. "

" Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good. "

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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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" All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. "

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" When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person. "

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

" Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. "

" The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it. "

" Law, without force, is impotent. "

" The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. "

" Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion. "

" 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. "

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

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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. "

" Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. "

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" One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. "

" 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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