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"Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth."
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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."

"It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course."

"The intelligent are candles, the virtuous are torches, the wise are lamps, and the enlightened are stars."

"Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life."

"To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything."

"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
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"Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it."

"All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end."

"Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong."

"If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?"

"Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."

"Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world."
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