Weariness.Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptin


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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
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Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about e...
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People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by other...
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One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of lif...
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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which h...
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Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
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Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force.
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Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea ...
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Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired : even I who write this, a...
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The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its ori...
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Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and...
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What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admi...
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Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous...
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The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thu...
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A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.
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Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction
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The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent ple...
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The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosp...
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Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convin...
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It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out...
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The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
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We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by reasons which have o...
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Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except throug...
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