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• The laws of nature are the rules according to which the effects are produced; but there must be a cause which operates…
• It appears evident, therefore, that those actions only can truly be called virtuous, and deserving of moral approbation, which the agent believed…
• must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely.
• In every case, we ought to act that part towards another, which we would judge to be right in him to act…
• It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds,…
• In every chain of reasoning, the evidence of the last conclusion can be no greater than that of the weakest link of…
• There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. To this chiefly it is owing that…
• Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child…
• A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages...…
• The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
• Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.
• There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

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