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“To be and to think are one and the same for us.”

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

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To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.

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The discoveries that one can make with the microscope amount to very little, for one sees with the mind's eye and without the microscope…

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In general, the more one augments the number of divisions of the productions of nature, the more one approaches the truth, since in nature…

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Style supposes the reunion and the exercise of all the intellectual faculties. The style is the man.

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Let us investigate more closely this property common to animal and plant, this power of producing its likeness, this chain of successive existences of…

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The dog has no ambition, no self-interest, no desire for vengeance, no fear other than that of displeasing.

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The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its…

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Although the works of the Creator may be in themselves all equally perfect, the animal is, as I see it, the most complete work…

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An Individual, whatever species it might be, is nothing in the Universe. A hundred, a thousand individuals are still nothing. The species are the…

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There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only truths of…

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The greatest marvel is not in the individual. It is in the succession, in the renewal and in the duration of the species that…

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Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly.

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