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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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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
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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Each Other Friendship Seperate
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
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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Equality Expression Human Need Principle Recognition
To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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Death Evidence Faith God Injustice Victim
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
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
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Faith Obstacle Religion True
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Art Destruction Effort Human Noble
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
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
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
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
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
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
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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Crime Justice Modern Name Wisdom
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
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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Direction Fall Love Oneself Soul
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.

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