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When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.

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A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

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The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

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All sins are attempts to fill voids.

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

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I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.

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If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.

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A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: February 3rd, 1909

Died: August 24th, 1943

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