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The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

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All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

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Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

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A good action is preferable to an argument.

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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

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What can we say with certainty?

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Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

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An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

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Only your friends steal your books.

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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!

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It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

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Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did after him. ... He carried this spirit of geometry and invention into optics, which under him became a completely new art.

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I have wanted to kill myself a million times, but somehow I am still in love with life.

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You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

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