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"Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state."
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"Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason."

"I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well."

"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."

"It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing."

"The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing."
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"Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip."

"There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men."

"We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves."

"An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards."

"I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits."

"Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love."
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