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The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in…
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The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or…
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of…
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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All money is a matter of belief.
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
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It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but…
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The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same,…
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The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can…
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Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are,…
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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back…
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Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a…
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When Charles Darwin wrote The Origin Of The Species, no one could have known that the ice cap would melt, that the…
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If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the…
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Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do…
— Victor Hugo
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