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There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
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Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.
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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
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An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
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A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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