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The state of man: inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.
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I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
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Comfort yourself, you would not seek me if you had not found me.
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Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you — will quiet your proudly critical intellect.
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
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Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.
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I have often said that man's unhappiness springs from one thing alone, his incapacity to stay quietly in one room.
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How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
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We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if we found it too slow in coming and were trying to hurry it up, or we recall the past as if to stay its too rapid flight. We are so unwise that we wander about in times that do not belong to us.
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Man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.
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Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.
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Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
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Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.
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One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better.
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Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness.
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Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?
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The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.
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It is much better to know something about everything than to know everything about one thing.
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If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous.... There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.
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The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it.
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Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
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Epictetus goes much further when he asks: Why do we not lose our temper if someone tells us that we have a headache, while we do lose it if someone says there is anything wrong with our arguments or our choice?
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Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have changed.
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The most powerful cause of error is the war existing between the senses and reason.
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One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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Born:
June 19, 1623
Died:
August 19, 1662
(aged 39)
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