Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.
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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.Blaise Pascal
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
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The present is never our goal the past and present are our means the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never live but we hope to live and always hoping to be happy, it is inevitable that we will never be so.
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Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
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Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
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Men despise religion they hate it, and they fear it is true.
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