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"The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self."
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"Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age."
"So the paradox goes: No man who is really ignorant is ever aware that he is ignorant. That is its finest, most faulty manifestation; there can be no true ignorance without first some claim of intelligence or consciousness, or superiority or enlightenment."
"A lack of knowledge always leads to defeat and destruction."
"To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance."
"I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman who has had plastic bags needlessly inserted into her breasts?', that fifteen year old boy would probably be like, 'what's plastic?'."
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"Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad."
"If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil."
"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."
"How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare."
"It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance."
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