“We never love a person, but only qualities.”
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French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher.
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“We never love a person, but only qualities.”
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“Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?”
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“All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.”
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“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”
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“Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.”
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“Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.”
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“Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.”
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“The only shame is to have none.”
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“Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.”
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“Vanity is but the surface.”
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“Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.”
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“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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