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Man is but a reed, weakest in nature, but a reed which thinks.
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Not from space must I seek my dignity, but from the ruling of my thought.
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The heart has its reasons, which reason knows not, as we feel in a thousand instances.
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By space the Universe encompasses and swallows me as an atom, by thought I encompass it.
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Without diversion no joy, with diversion no sadness.
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all the misfortunes of men arise from one thing only, that they are unable to stay quietly in their own chamber
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Who does not see from all this that man has gone astray, that he has fallen from his place, that he seeks it with disquiet, that he cannot regain it?