| It's difficult to know
ourselves... |
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| "Learn to know yourself, and go down
in yourself." |
Pierre Corneille |
| "He knows the world and does not
know himself." |
Jean de la Fontaine |
| "Who knows himself is his own
master."
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Pierre de Ronsard |
| "Our salvation and our good are in
ourselves." |
Epictète |
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| Destiny... |
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"They change their skies, not their
souls,
Who run across the sea..." |
Horace |
| "The heart has its own reasons, that
the reason ignores." |
Blaise Pascal |
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| Work... |
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| "Ora, ora, ora et labora:
pray, pray, pray and work!" |
Alchemic sentence |
| "God likes those who persevere." |
Mahomet |
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| Despair... |
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| "It is not sure that we'll see
tomorrow." |
Blaise Pascal |
| "I can't help it, the idea of the
infinite is a torment to me." |
A. de Musset |
"How I would love you, ô Night,
without all these stars
Whose light speaks a known language!" |
Charles Beaudelaire |
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| Love... |
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"It's no longer a passion hidden in
my veins: it is the goddess
Venus herself fastened on her prey..." |
Jean Racine |
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| Light and blindness...
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| "The truth, as the light, makes
blind." |
Albert Camus |
| "Those who cannot remember the past
will have to repeat it." |
Santayana |
"It is good sometimes to blind
ourselves,
And very often, error is the supreme
happiness." |
Destouches |
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| Doubt... |
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"Incomprehensible that God is,
And incomprehensible that He is not ." |
Blaise Pascal |
"There is the infinity to earn,
let us thus bet that God is, without
hesitation!" |
The Pascalian bet |
"The Universe embarass me and I
can't imagine
That this clock exists and have no
horloger." |
Voltaire |
| "Se non è vero, è molto ben
trovato." |
Giordano Bruno |
| "If God did not exist, it would be
necessary to invent Him." |
Voltaire |
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| Faith, Spirituality,
Mystery... |
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| "What climbs converges." |
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
| "Mehr licht (more light)! " |