"Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them."
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"Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong."
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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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"True eloquence scorns eloquence."
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"It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants."
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"The war existing between the senses and reason."
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"A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us."
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"It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time his greatness. It is likewise dangerous to let him see his greatness without his meanness. It is more dangerous yet to leave him ignorant of either; but very beneficial that he should be made sensible of both."
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"There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real."
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"Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail."
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"Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it."
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"Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony"
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"We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting."
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"Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones."
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"Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?"
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"Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To leave the mean is to abandon humanity."
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"By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which is the science, by way of eminence, of living well and being happy), but all mankind together is making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older. So that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man who never ceases to live and learn."
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"You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies."
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"One-half of life is admitted by us to be passed in sleep, in which, however, it may appear otherwise, we have no perception of truth, and all our feelings are delusions; who knows but the other half of life, in which we think we are awake, is a sleep also, but in some respects different from the other, and from which we wake when we, as we call it, sleep. As a man dreams often that he is dreaming, crowding one dreamy delusion on another."
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"To find recreation in amusement is not happiness."
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