"All soils are not fertile."
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"Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath."
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"A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant."
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"Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind."
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"Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature."
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"The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature."
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"It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship."
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"Studies are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; they are companions by night, and in travel, and in the country."
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"The science of love is the philosophy of the heart"
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"That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind."
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"As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith."
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"No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion."
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"Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary."
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"For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that."
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"The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present."
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"Strain every nerve to gain your point."
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"For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?"
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"Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living."
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"I hate all children of precocious talent."
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"War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]"
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