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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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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
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Believe Faith Life Light
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 you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
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Enough Love Yourself
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of, We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.
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Heart Reason Truth
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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Human Limitation Wisdom
What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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Difference God Himself Love
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
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
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
Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
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Investment Soul Truth Yourself
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
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 like to be deceived.
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One Liner Trust
Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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Cheat Foundation
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Beyond Logic Men Reason
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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Deceive Human Life Men Ourselves Presence
And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?
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Crime Destroy Peace Truth
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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Discover Intelligence Men Reality
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
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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Live Man Reason Suffering
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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Love Reason Understand
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
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God Heart Spiritual
Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
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Justice Strength
Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
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Greatness Lying Man Power
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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Different Faith Gift God Human
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
All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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