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The self is hateful.
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Self
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
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Men
Difference
Intellect
Originality
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
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Leisure
Present
The only shame is to have none.
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Shame
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
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Nature
Importance
Ocean
The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.
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Infinity
Nothing
Reason
The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
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Act
Earth
End
Play
Rest
The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
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Love
God
Knowledge
The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
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Soul
Feeling
Immortality
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
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Greatness
Man
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
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Cause
Consciousness
Ignorance
Present
Vanity
The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
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God
Infinite
Justice
Nothing
Spirit
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
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Infinite
Silence
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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Heart
Nothing
Reason