Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
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It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
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Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.
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Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
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Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
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The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
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People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
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We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
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The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
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