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"A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding."
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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."
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"In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play."
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"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm."
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"It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies."
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"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one."
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"Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms."
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"Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others."
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"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
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"It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded."
Numbers
"To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me."
Truth
"If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought."
Thought
"To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction."
Action
"We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances."
Cause
"A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding."
Man
"Errors are not in the art but in the artificers."
Art
"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."
Giants
"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy."
Art
"I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
Truth
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