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- We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one…
- To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
- It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
- Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
- History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
- Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
- Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
- Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
- 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…
- Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
- Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in…
- I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.
- The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
- The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him
- Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
- Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and…
- Only your friends steal your books.
- Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them…
- The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections,…
- He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
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