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"Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience."
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"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."
"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."
"We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."
"The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism."
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"The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched."
"The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason."
"Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him."
"We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured."
"There is nothing we can now call our own, for what we call so is the effect of art; crimes are made by decrees of the senate, or by the votes of the people; and as here-to-fore we are burdened by vices, so now we are oppressed by laws."
"The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men."
"Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?"
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