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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Simone Weil

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
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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Choices Direction God World Worship
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Human Important Need Recognition Soul
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
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
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
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
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
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
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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Himself Lose Men Money
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
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
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
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True

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