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- In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.
- Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: 'My friend,…
- My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
- The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in…
- Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
- Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
- Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their…
- In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
- We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
- There is not a Musselman[Muslim] alive who would not imagine that he was performing an action pleasing to God and his Holy Prophet by exterminating…
- Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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