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By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred of a nature so completely unexpected--so entirely novel--so utterly at variance with preconceived opinions--as to leave no doubt on my mind that long ere this all Europe is in an uproar, all physics in a ferment, all reason and astronomy together by the ears.

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'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.

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Real sign of intelligence isn't knoweldge, it's imagination

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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

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A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic.

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It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity

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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

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If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

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Science is nothing but perception.

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A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants

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It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

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Wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes, but presently prevent the ways to wail.

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What a piece of work is a man

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I still believe that man, not having been given the power of creation, does not posses the right of destroying the meanest creature that lives. The perogative of destruction belongs solely to the Creator of all that lives.

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

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Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.

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Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

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Man is by nature a political animal.

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