- Fear not, provided you fear but if you fear not, then fear. »
- The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. »
- I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. »
- We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything. »
- It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. »
- All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone. »
- It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants. »
- Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is, but let us consider the two possibilities. If you gain, you gain all if you lose you lose nothing. Hesitate not, then, to wager that He is. »
- The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion. »
- I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. »
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