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"It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence."
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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."
"Never assume you know it all. Ask questions."
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"Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly."
"Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed."
"By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him."
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