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" The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason. "

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" Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good. "

" The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. "

" It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. "

" Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree. "

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" Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. "

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" Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. "

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" Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves. "

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" Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else. "

" The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. "

" We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured. "

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" Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? "

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