"The stream is always purer at its source."
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"Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death."
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"The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]"
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"We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end."
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"To speak freely of mathematics, I find it the highest exercise of the spirit; but at the same time I know that it is so useless that I make little distinction between a man who is only a mathematician and a common artisan. Also, I call it the most beautiful profession in the world; but it is only a profession."
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"La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality."
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"To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher."
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"Sneezing absorbs all the functions of the soul just as much as the [sexual] act, but we do not draw from it the same conclusions against the greatness of man, because it is involuntary; although we bring it about, we do so involuntarily. It is not for the sake of the thing in itself but for another end, and is therefore not a sign of man's weakness, or his subjection to this act."
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"Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling."
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"Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing. This universality is the best. If we can have both, still better; but if we must choose, we ought to choose the former."
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"Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm."
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"Continuity in everything is unpleasant."
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"The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death."
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"It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power."
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"Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary."
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"Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted."
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"Let man then contemplate nature in full and lofty majesty, and turn his eyes away from the mean objects which surround him. Let him look at the dazzling light hung aloft as an eternal lamp to lighten the universe; let him behold the earth, a mere dot compared with the vast circuit which that orb describes, and stand amazed to find that the vast circuit itself is but a very fine point compared with the orbit traced by the starts as they roll their course on high."
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"All our dignity lies in our thoughts."
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"For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible."
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"What amazes me most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness."
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