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All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room a...  
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm...  
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me beca...   Patriotism
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction ...  
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; des...  
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.  
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.  
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.  
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written ...  
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.  
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary ...  
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.  
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gi...  
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of...  
Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would h...  
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be love...   Religion
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being una...  
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there wo...  
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four frien...  
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with th...  
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and ha...  
In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, an...  
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enoug...   Faith
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one w...  
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.  
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what f...  
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we...  
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannica...  
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.  
Law, without force, is impotent.  
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.  
Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.  
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.  
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.  
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from...  
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the...  
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.  
Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it ...  
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a pas...  
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at...  
Our nature consist in motion; complete rest is death.  
People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselve...  
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ...  
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the...  
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is...  
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.  
The gospel to me is simply irresistible.  
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.  
The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.  
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is...  
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure...  
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special e...  
The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.  
The war existing between the senses and reason.  
There are only three types of people; those who have found God and ser...  
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinn...  
There are truths on this side of the Pyranees, which are falsehoods on...   Nature
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for...   Sports
Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; giv...  
Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.  
Vanity is but the surface.  
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me f...  
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and d...  
We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. ...  
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.  
We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.  
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven fro...  
We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes;...  
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we ...  
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we exp...  
You always admire what you really don't understand.