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When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

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Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

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What can I hope when all is right?

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A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.

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Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.

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All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

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Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

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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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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

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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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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

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A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

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Happiness is a good that nature sells us.

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God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

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It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

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

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A good action is preferable to an argument.

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Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.

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