"If you will be guided by me, you will make little account of Socrates, and much more of truth."
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"You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged."
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"Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the act of an angry man, God's punishment is metaphorically spoken of as His anger."
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"By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account."
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"There is no such thing as a true account of anything."
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"And what is impossible to science?"
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"Account no man happy till he dies."
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"Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account."
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"It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word."
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"Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not."
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"Truth takes no account of centuries."
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"Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised."
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"Science finds it methods."
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"If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance."
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"But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine."
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"There are accounts that, if we open our hearts to them, will cut us too deeply."
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"That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted."
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"All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account"
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"Who must account for himselfe and others, must know both."
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"By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti."
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