Infatuation is like a drug that gives you the best high yet gives you the worst headache after.


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Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
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Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side...
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
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In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others ...
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I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friend...
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Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
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We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
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If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. Ho...
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Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend...
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When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we...
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Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have differen...
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Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on what...
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Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go. [Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins...
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He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide. [Fr., Les rivieres son...
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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe n...
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I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter. [Fr., Je...
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India is decidedly not anything that was part of my upbringing or part of my experience or part of m...
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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything ...
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If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves ha...
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We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them ...
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To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
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I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
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A jester, a bad character. [Fr., Diseur de bon mots, mauvais caractere.]
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It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.
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We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view t...
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By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and ma...
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For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, ...
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Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, stil...
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We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
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We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us...
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