"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."

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Man

"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."

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"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

People

"A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments."

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"Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous."

Doubt

"Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me."

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"The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism."

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"Sickness is mankind's greatest defect."

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"Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams."

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"The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing."

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