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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

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Nature has always had more force than education.

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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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Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

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Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

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You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.

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But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

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Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

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Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

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

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The road to the heart is the ear

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God created sex. Priests created marriage.

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There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

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To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

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We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

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Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

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No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

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A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.

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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

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