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"I can readily conceive of a man without hands or feet; and I could conceive of him without a head, if experience had not taught me that by this he thinks, Thought then, is the essence of man, and without this we cannot conceive of him."
"You gave me health that I might serve you; and so often I failed to use my good health in your service. Now you send me sickness in order to correct me Grant that, having ignored the things of spirit when my body was vigorous, I may now enjoy spiritual sweetness while my body groans with pain."
"Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied."
"The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first."
"Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room."
"We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so."
"Undoubtedly equality of goods is just; but, being unable to cause might to obey justice, men has made it just to obey might. Unable to strengthen justice, they have justified might--so that the just and the strong should unite, and there should be peace, which is the sovereign good."