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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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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
Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
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Exception Happiness Search
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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Live Man Reason Suffering
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
Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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Confusion Unity
Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
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Admire Conceal Deed Goodness
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
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Extraordinary Greatness Ordinary Wisdom
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
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Human Limitation Wisdom
Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
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Greatness Lying Man Power
Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
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Fear Yourself
The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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Affection Ocean Pebble
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
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
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
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
Faith is a gift of God.
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Faith Gift God
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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Accomplishment Character Kindness
Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
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Curiosity Pride Talk Vanity
All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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Dignity Lying Thinking
All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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Inspirational Man Misery Peace
Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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Children One Liner Way Wisdom
What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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Difference God Himself Love
One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.
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Act Life Men Possible Spiritual Thinking
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
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God Heart Spiritual
If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
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Opinion Talk Yourself
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

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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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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