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Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
[ Christianity ]
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We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.
[ Listening ]
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People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found out by others.
[ Persuasion ]
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Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
[ Habit ]
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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
[ Habit ]
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Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.
[ Boredom ]
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There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
[ Sin ]
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We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
[ Conflict ]
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The war existing between the senses and reason.
[ Conflict ]
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Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
[ Enthusiasm ]
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Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.
[ Conscience ]
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Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
[ Religion ]
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If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
[ Gossip ]
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I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
[ Gossip ]
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The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
[ Effort ]
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.
[ Heart ]
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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.
[ Evil ]
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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
[ Evil ]
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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
[ Passion ]
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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
[ Pleasure ]
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