Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.
If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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.
Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.
Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.
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.
A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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.
There is a God-shaped hole in the life of every man.
Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
Continuous eloquence wearies.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.
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.
Kind words produce their images on men's souls.
Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
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.
Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.
The property of power is to protect.
All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.
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