If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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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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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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Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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