"I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness."
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"Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures."
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"It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them."
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"All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self."
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"Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair."
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"If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God"
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"Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things."
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"Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point."
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"Wisdom leads us back to childhood."
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"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."
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"Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits."
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"Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end."
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"Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough."
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"No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth"
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"Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it"
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"The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires."
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"Man is neither angel nor beast."
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"We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship."
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"In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another."
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"The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him."
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