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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

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Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

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If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

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People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

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He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

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Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.

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The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

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The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.

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Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

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History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

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We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

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It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

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To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.

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

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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

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But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.

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