"Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)"
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"All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity."
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"Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable."
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"It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth."
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"Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical."
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"Eloquence is the painting of thought."
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"Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him."
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"All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly."
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"Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves."
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"Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one."
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"I should not be a Christian but for the miracles."
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"L'on a beau se cacher a' soi-me" me, l'on aime toujours. We vainly conceal from ourselves the fact that we are always in love."
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"How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all."
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"If you believe in God you are at no disadvantage in this life, and at considerable advantage in the next. If you do not believe, but find in the next that there was a next, you are most unfortunate!"
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"When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true."
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"The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room."
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"The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about the misery of man, and they tempt you to despair."
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"In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a tempest upon an unknown island, the inhabitants of which were in trouble to find their king, who was lost; and having a strong resemblance both in form and face to this king, he was taken for him, and acknowledged in this capacity by all the people."
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"Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature."
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"Let us now speak according to natural lights. If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible. . . . We are then incapable of knowing of either what He is or if He is. . . ."
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