All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
From Blaise Pascal
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
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