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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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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
We never love a person, but only qualities.
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Deep Love Person Quality
Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
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Greatness Lying Man Power
Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
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Admire Conceal Deed Goodness
We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.
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Men Seek Truth Value
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
Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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Justice Strength
Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
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Endurance Fade Limitation
When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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Logic Mathematics Right
If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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Faith God Happiness Men
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
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Attraction Belief People
All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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Inspirational Man Misery Peace
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
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God Heart Spiritual
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
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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Alone Feeling Let Go Reason
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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Easy Evil Infinite
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
How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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Heart Hollow Men
The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.
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God Men Nature Religion Worth
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
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Establishment Love Spiritual Time Truth
Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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Cheat Foundation
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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Search Sincere Spirituality Vision
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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Live Man Reason Suffering
It’s not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It’s those who write the songs.
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Law Song Worth Writing
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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Human Limitation Wisdom
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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Accomplishment Character Kindness
Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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God Happiness Ourselves Spiritual

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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