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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care. ”
That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians. ”
Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you. ”
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. ”
The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist. ”
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s. ”
I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love. ”
Eternity is in love with the productions of time. ”
Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age. ”
If a thing loves, it is infinite. ”