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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.

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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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Dangerous Existence Human Tremble
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
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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Empty Grace Inspirational Space
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
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
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
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Himself Intelligence Men Pride Proud
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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Adversity Grace Religious Transformation Trouble
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Action Life Modern Private Public Thinking
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way

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