Quote #50

God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves. [p.270]

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  1. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence. [p.260]
  2. To desire friendship is a great fault. Friendship should be a gratuitous joy like those afforded by art or life. We must refuse it so that …
  3. The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it. [p.260]
  4. To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (…
  5. We should desire neither the immortality nor the death of any human being, whoever he may be, with whom we have to do. [p.260]
  6. Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death. [p.277]
  7. We must leave on one side the beliefs which fill up voids and sweeten what is bitter. The belief in immortality. The belief in the utility …
  8. Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity. [p.277]

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