Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
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Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.Blaise Pascal
Le coeur a ses raisons dont le cerveau ne sait nul. T 'The heart has its reasons, of which the mind knows nothing.'
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I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short.
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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
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You always admire what you really don't understand.
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