"All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone."
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"L'homme n'est qu'un sujet plein d'erreur, naturelle et ineffa c° able sans la gra" ce. Man is nothing but a subject full of natural error that cannot be eradicated except through grace."
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"Le moi est ha|«s sable. The self is hateful."
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"All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate."
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"Which is the more believable of the two, Moses or China?"
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"Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety."
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"What are our natural principles but principles of custom?"
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"It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist."
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"Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk."
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"Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them."
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"Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance."
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"En un mot, l'homme conna|"t qu'il est mise rable: il est donc mise rable, puisqu'il l'est; mais il est bien grand, puisqu'il le conna|"t. In one word, man knows that he is miserable and therefore he is miserable because he knows it; but he is also worthy, because he knows his condition."
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"Without the knowledge of our wretchedness, the knowledge of God creates pride. With it, the knowledge of God creates despair. The knowledge of Christ offers a third way, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness."
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"The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine volition...Rather, everything small and large is written and comes to be in a known and expected measure."
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"I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans."
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"Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra."
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"Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances."
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"Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place."
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"Je ne crois que les histoires dont les te moins se feraient e gorger. I only believe in histories told by witnesses who would have had their throats slit."
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"That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness; that is most remarkable."
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