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"Will and intellect are one and the same thing."
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"But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over."
"Nothing will be impossible for the one who reads."
"Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way."
"No one knows a man better than himself."
"A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect."
"Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets."
"Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions."
"No one can do the learning for you."
"My quest and passionate curiosity are the basis for my love for scientific adventure."
"Nobody knows it all. You must keep learning."
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"Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd."
"Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words."
"So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it."
"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free."
"Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men."
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