“Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.”
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Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them.
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.