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A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

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The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.

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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

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Historians are gossips who tease the dead

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Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.

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Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

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It is only through timidity that states are lost.

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The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

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A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

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So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

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All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

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Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.

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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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We only half live when we only half think.

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History never repeats itself. Man always does.

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Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

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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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Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!

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Change everything except your loves.

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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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