"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."

"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."

"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."

"The right man is the one who seizes the moment."

"Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition."

"There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls."

"If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms."

"As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress."

"Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'"

"To understand a man, you must know his memories. The same is true of a nation."

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"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."