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Quote Left Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this. Quote Right
Quote Left The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. Quote Right
Quote Left We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it. Quote Right
Quote Left A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us. Quote Right
Quote Left I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world. Quote Right
Quote Left Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death. Quote Right
Quote Left Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them. Quote Right
Quote Left It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants. Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right
Quote Left One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. Quote Right
Quote Left The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. Quote Right
Quote Left Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. Quote Right
Quote Left Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is, but let us consider the two possibilities. If you gain, you gain all if you lose you lose nothing. Hesitate not, then, to wager that He is. Quote Right
Quote Left I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. Quote Right
Quote Left Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other. Quote Right
Quote Left If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. Quote Right
Quote Left Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. Quote Right
Quote Left It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. Quote Right
Quote Left The gospel to me is simply irresistible. Quote Right
Quote Left There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous. Quote Right
Quote Left The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread. Quote Right
Quote Left Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world. Quote Right
Quote Left Law, without force, is impotent. Quote Right
Quote Left Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. Quote Right
Quote Left If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. Quote Right
Quote Left Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. Quote Right
Quote Left Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. Quote Right
Quote Left All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling. Quote Right
Quote Left Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else. Quote Right
Quote Left The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. Quote Right
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