Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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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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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
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It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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