The religious life is a struggle, and not a hymn.
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I desire no other evidence of the truth of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, takes from attention its strength, from thought its originality, from feeling its earnestness.
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults andour misfortunes.
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike.
One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
To understand everything makes one very indulgent.
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