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- There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than…
- The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
- Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
- Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
- One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
- Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
- If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
- Nature has always had more force than education.
- Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
- The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there…
- Minds differ still more than faces.
- The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
- I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of…
- Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them
- It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
- I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of…
- The more a man knows, the less he talks.
- Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.
- But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which…
- I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.
- History is no more than the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes
- The history of human opinion is scarcely anything, more than the history of human errors
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