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Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave

All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.

Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.

The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature ... and the thing which pleases us.

It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.

The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.

Custom determines what is agreeable.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

No one dies so poor that he does not leave something behind.

How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.

Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.

Not to be mad is another form of madness

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Man governs himself more by impulse than reason

Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Console-toi, tu ne me chercherais pas si tu ne m'avais trouve . Comfort yourself.You would not seek me if you had not found me.

What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster ... what a contradiction, what a prodigy

The charm of fame is so great, that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life.

The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts.

Wisdom leads us back to childhood.

Admiration spoils all from infancy.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.

It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.

Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.

Let each of us examine his thoughts

We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search.

The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.

Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.

It is natural for the mind to believe, and for the will to love; [47] so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.

It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.

This dog is mine," said those poor children; "that is my place in the sun." Here is the beginning and the image of the usurpation of all the earth.

Wisdom leads us back to childhood. Except ye become as little children.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.

Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.

You would not seek me if you did not possess me.

We never seek things for themselves, but for the search.

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition

The only religion which is against nature, against common sense and against our pleasures is the only one which has always existed.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind ...

I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.

Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

If we look at our work immediately after completing it, we are still too involved; if too long afterwards, we cannot pick up the thread again. It

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

We run carelessly over the precipice after having put something in front of us to prevent us seeing it.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.

If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.

We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us seeing it.

He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides that which we love.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Ecclesiastes shows that man without God is in total ignorance and inevitable misery.

The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.

Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.

Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.

Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth.

All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.

The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.

If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others.

Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.

That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.

Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.

When we come across a natural style, we are surprised and delighted; for we expected an author, and we
find a man.

If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.

Our natures lie in motion, without which we die.

All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.

We know the truth, not only be the reason, but also be the heart.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.

Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.