Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.
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Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.Blaise Pascal
The property of power is to protect.
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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.
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The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing. (La coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point)
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