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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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I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn’t than live as if he doesn’t exist to find out He does.
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Existence God Himself Live Myself
All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
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Men Trouble World
Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
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Happiness Human Quiet Silence
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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Discover Intelligence Men Reality
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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Inspirational Letter Writing
Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
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God Happiness Ourselves
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
All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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Dignity Lying Thinking
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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Business Men Passion Tolerance
We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
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Eyes People Reality Satisfaction
Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.
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Darkness Death Men Vice Victory
Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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Confusion Unity
There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
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Desire Enough Light See
If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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Enough Love Yourself
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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Alone Feeling Let Go Reason
If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
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Opinion Talk Yourself
Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
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Death Life Suicide
Most of man’s trouble comes from his inability to be still.
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Ability Men Trouble
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
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
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Existence Faith God Heart Reason
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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Live Man Reason Suffering
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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Force Justice Power Strength
Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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Greatness Small Suffering
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
All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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Practice Writing
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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Human Limitation Wisdom

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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