Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.
Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.
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.
A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.
If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us.
The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.
If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.
Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
Continuous eloquence wearies.
There is a God-shaped hole in the life of every man.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.
Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.
Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
Kind words produce their images on men's souls.
Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.
What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.
Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it.
Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.
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