"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."

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"There's nothing colder than chemistry."

"There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it."

"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow."

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