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People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
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Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
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If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
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Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
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Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
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The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.
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The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
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The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
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The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
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