"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."
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"Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life."
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"Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity."
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"It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you have established, according to your fine undertstanding, the limits of truth and falsehood, and it turns out that you must necessarily believe things even stranger than those you deny, you are obliged from then on to abandon these limits."
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"To know much is often the cause of doubting more."
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"Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be."
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"If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another."
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"There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself"
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"The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar."
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"As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man."
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"The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight."
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"The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it."
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"My appetite comes to me while eating."
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"Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most."
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"It is not death, it is dying that alarms me."
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"How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables."
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"Desire and hope will push us on toward the future."
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"Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?"
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"Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations."
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"I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery?"
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