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- No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.
- I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.
- Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six…
- Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four…
- Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support…
- It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
- Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can…
- At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that nature set them,…
- I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly…
- Almost all Christians being wretchedly enslaved to blindness and ignorance, which the priests are so far from preventing or removing, that they blacken the darkness,…
- People who use their erudition to write for a learned minority... don't seem to me favored by fortune but rather to be pitied for their…
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