When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
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The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences.Blaise Pascal
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.
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Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives
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That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
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Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
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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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