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Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.

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

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Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

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We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

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It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

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Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion

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History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

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Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

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We cannot wish for that we know not.

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Everything can be borne except contempt.

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If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

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History should be written as philosophy.

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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

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All is but illusion and disaster.

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I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

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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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The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

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We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

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