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• Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance…
• They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a…
• The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.
• If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen…
• There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.
• For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is…
• It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age.
• War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

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