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If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.

Simone Weil

It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Attention Capability Prayer Simplicity Soul
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Cry Different Reading Silence
The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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Greatness Lying Religion Seek Suffering
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves People
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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Exception Gift Loan Value
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Adversity Grace Religious Transformation Trouble
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Himself Lose Men Money

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.

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