The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

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The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike.

C.S. Lewis in The Poison of Subjectivism
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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

C.S. Lewis in The Four Loves
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We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

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Pride is a spiritual Cancer: It eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

C.S. Lewis in First Things First
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I believe in God like I believe in the sun, not because I can see it, but because of it all things are seen.

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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

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Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.

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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

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