“Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.”
Truth“Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.”
Sports“Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.”
Truth“Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.”
Truth“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.”
Nature“Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.”
Nature“It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.”
Good“I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”
Time“The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.”
Men“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”
Alone“Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.”
Faith“As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.”
Death“Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.”
Sports“There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.”
God“Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.”
God“Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.”
Business“Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.”
Nature“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
Men“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.”
Truth“If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.”
Men“Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.”
Power“The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.”
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