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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates
Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out
With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another
We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him
To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation
The most accomplished monkey cannot draw a monkey, this only man can do; just as it is also only man who regards his ability to do this as a distinct merit
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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