If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
SIMONE WEILIt is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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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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Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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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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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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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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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 much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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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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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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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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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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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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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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