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Man is so great that his grea...

Man is so great that his greatness appears even in the consciousness of his misery. A tree does not know itself to be miserable. It is true that it is misery indeed to know one's self to be miserable; but then it is greatness also. In this way, all man's miseries go to prove his greatness. They are the miseries of a mighty potentate, of a dethroned monarch.

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If he exalts himself, I humbl...

If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he is a monster that passes all understanding.

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Man is nothing but insincerit...

Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he should be told the truth, he shuns saying it to others; and all these moods, so inconsistent with justice and reason, have their roots in his heart.

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If we submit everything to re...

If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.

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Nothing is good but mediocrit...

Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To leave the mean is to abandon humanity.

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All men naturally hate one an...

All men naturally hate one another. I hold it a fact, that if men knew exactly what one says of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

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Le silence est la plus grande...

Le silence est la plus grande perse cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint was ever silent.

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Discourses on humility are a ...

Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.

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All the unhappiness of men ar...

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

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Christianity is strange. It b...

Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.

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It is not from space that I m...

It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

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Man is so made that if he is ...

Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.

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There is nothing that we can ...

There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man without God, or the strength of man with God.

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Amusement that is excessive a...

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

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Our achievements of today are...

Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.

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Justice and truth are two suc...

Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

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All men seek happiness. There...

All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.

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Man is to himself the most wo...

Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.

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God only pours out his light ...

God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it.

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If men knew themselves, God w...

If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.

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