A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.
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Two kinds of persons know Him those who have a humble heart, and who love lowliness, whatever kind of intellect they may have, high or low and those who have sufficient understanding to see the truth, whatever opposition they may have to it.
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Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a glance and are not used to seeking for first principles. Those, on the other hand, who are accustomed to reason from first principles do not understand matters of feeling at all, because they look for first principles and are unable to comprehend at a glance.
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Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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