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War is the supreme form of prestige.

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It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Choice Light Oneself Plant
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Equality God Gratitude Inspirational Love Purity Suffering
God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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God Love Ourselves Reason
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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Exception Gift Loan Value
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves People
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Duty Evil Necessary Philosophy Power
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession

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