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.
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.
There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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.
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
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