"Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them."
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"If you wish to write, write."
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"O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from the same stock, and of the same high descent? But if you chance to be placed in some superior station, will you presently set yourself up for a tyrant?"
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"To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported."
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"What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events."
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"Every place is safe to him who lives with justice."
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"A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path—he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off. You also must show the unlearned man the truth, and you will see that he will follow. But so long as you do not show it him, you should not mock, but rather feel your own incapacity."
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