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friends in the world." | |
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Found in the topic Gossip.
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| "It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason." | |
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Found in the topic Faith.
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| "There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Reason"s last step is the recognition that there are an infinite
number of things which are beyond it." | |
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Found in the topic Reason.
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| "Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; But it is opinion
that uses force." | |
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Found in the topic Force.
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| "Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of
yourself." | |
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Found in the topic Praise.
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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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Found in the topic Desire.
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| "To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize." | |
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Found in the topic Philosophy.
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| "Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having
written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having
read them." | |
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Found in the topic Writing.
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| "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it
from religious conviction." | |
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Found in the topic Cheerful.
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| "Cleopatra"s nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world
would have been changed." | |
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Found in the topic Beauty.
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| "We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from An example
of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which
is so common, while that which is good is so rare." | |
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Found in the topic Evil.
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| "We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart." | |
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Found in the topic Truth.
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| "Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and
happiness, which is everything in this world." | |
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Found in the topic Illusions.
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| "The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing." | |
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Found in the topic Perception.
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| "The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put
first." | |
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Found in the topic Discovery.
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| "Words differently arranged have a different meaning and meanings
differently arranged have a different effect." | |
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Found in the topic Language.
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| "Early things must be known to be loved: divine things must be loved
to be known." | |
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Found in the topic Earth.
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| "Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of
contradiction a sign of truth." | |
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Found in the topic Contradict.
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| "We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found
ourselves than by those which have occurred to others." | |
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Found in the topic Others.
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