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Nothing is so intolerable to m...

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty, insufficient, dependent, ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom, gloom, sorrow, chagrin, resentment and despair.

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Continued eloquence is weariso...

Continued eloquence is wearisome.

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Two similar faces, neither of ...

Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance.

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Amusement allures and deceives...

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

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A jester, a bad character....

A jester, a bad character.

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All mankind's unhappiness deri...

All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.

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Necessity, that great refuge a...

Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force.

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Opinion is the queen of the wo...

Opinion is the queen of the world.

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The stream is always purer at ...

The stream is always purer at its source.

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I cannot forgive Descartes. In...

I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give a fillip to set the world in motion; beyond this, he has no further need of God.

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Nature confuses the skeptics a...

Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists

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Faith affirms many things, res...

Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony

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Some vices only lay hold of us...

Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.

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The more intelligence one has,...

The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.

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Nothing is good but mediocrity...

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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How vain painting is, exciting...

How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.

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How vain is painting, which is...

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

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To ridicule philosophy is real...

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

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All men seek happiness. This i...

All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.

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When I see the blind and wretc...

When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowing who put him there, what he has to do, or what will become of him when he dies, incapable of knowing anything, I am moved to terror, like a man transported in his sleep to some terrifying desert island, who wakes up quite lost, with no means of escape. Then I marvel that so wretched a state does not drive people to despair.

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