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- A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.
- The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life…
- It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
- Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could wish to die. Jesus dies…
- I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is bad. Countless others…
- The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only…
- No one is happy unless he respects himself.
- I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was…
- Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt…
- One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
- Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself
- An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste…
- The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.
- Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.
- There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is it Aristotle? Is…
- What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
- It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.
- Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The more…
- I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove…
- If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.
- God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason.…
- The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
- Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
- You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
- It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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