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Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.

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Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!
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Greatness Myself Power Yourself
Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
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Faith Limitation Reason
We like to be deceived.
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One Liner Trust
The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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Act Inspirational Strength Wisdom
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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Live Man Reason Suffering
We never love a person, but only qualities.
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Deep Love Person Quality
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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Divine Human Love Religion
Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
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Greatness Men Strange
If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.
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Believe God Life Philosophy Spiritual
All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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Practice Writing
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Beyond Logic Men Reason
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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Evil Inspirational Religious Sad
Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
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Death Life Suicide
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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Alone Feeling Let Go Reason
Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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Justice Strength
Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
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Lying Men Thinking

Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.

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Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.

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