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But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.

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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

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The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.

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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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Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

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Fear could never make virtue.

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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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Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

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One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

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It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

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A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

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A witty quote proves nothing.

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my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame

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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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

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Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

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