Why do we feel sorry for people who can't travel? Because, unable to expand externally, they are not able to expand internally either, they can't multiply and so they are deprived of the possibility of undertaking expansive excursions in themselves and discovering who and what else they could have become.


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Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their...
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
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Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above,...
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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the ...
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who d...
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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.
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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
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Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am...
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If you would have people speak well of you, then do not speak well of yourself.
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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in ...
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Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
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The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
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I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the...
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If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
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Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.
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If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exi...
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He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.
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It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.
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Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whate...
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It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obe...
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To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
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I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
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The gospel to me is simply irresistible.
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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Our nature consist in motion; complete rest is death.
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There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think ...
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The only shame is to have none
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It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
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The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source....
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The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in th...
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Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of...
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It is in vain, 0 men, that you seek within yourselves the cure for your miseries. All your insight o...
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All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.
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If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
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Men never do evil so fully and so happily as when they do it for conscience's sake.
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What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke, that he does not beli...
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