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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.
The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing.
All the troubles of man stem from his inability to sit quietly in a room
I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short.
For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.
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