“ There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it. ”
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“ Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. ”
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“ Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful. ”
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“ How had they met? By chance, like everybody else. What were there names? What's it to you? Where were they coming from? From the nearest place. Where were they going? Does anyone really know where they're going? ”
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“ One swallows the lie that flatters, but sips the bitter truth drop by drop. ”
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“ All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings. ”
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“ Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. ”
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“ كان من أولئك الذين, مع الأسف, ولدوا لكي يمارسوا الفضيلة دون أن يشعروا بحلاوتها, ممن يفعلون الخير من منطلق تطبيق النظام, كما يحاكمون الأمور. ”
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“ You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, so all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last. You have all the fears of mortals and all the desires of immortals… What foolish forgetfulness of mortality to defer wise resolutions to the fiftieth or sixtieth year, and to intend to begin life at a point to which few have attained. ”
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“ In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way… ”
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“ There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact… ”
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“ It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. ”
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“ Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. ”
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“ I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep. ”
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“ Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things. ”
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“ The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action. ”
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“ The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned. ”
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“ The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law. ”
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“ Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. ”
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“ All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs. ”
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“ The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law. ”
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“ All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs. ”
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“ Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. ”
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“ It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. ”
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“ Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. ”
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“ Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. ”
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