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"There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it."
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"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."

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

"The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything."

"Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing."

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"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends."

"We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names."

"Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive."

"O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!"
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