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"Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know."
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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."
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"What a prodigious conscience must that be that can be at quiet within itself whilst it harbors under thesame roof, with so agreeing and so calm a society, both the crime and the judge?"
"It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her."
"The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough."
"The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will."
"There never were two opinions alike in all the world no more than two hours or two grains: the most universal quality is diversity."
"The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing."
"We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."
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