"Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures."
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"As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge."
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"The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge."
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"In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it."
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"Is it not better to remain in suspense than to entangle yourself in the many errors that the human fancy has produced? Is it not better to suspend your convictions than to get mixed up in these seditious and quarrelsome divisions?"
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"But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes."
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"No one should be subjected to force over things which belonged to him."
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"When I was young, beautiful ancient statues were castrated, so that the eye might not be corrupted.... Nothing was gained, unless horses and asses had also been castrated."
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"Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh."
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"Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens."
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"Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth."
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"Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it takes."
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"I turn my gaze inward. I fix it there and keep it busy. I look inside myself. I continually observe myself."
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"A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company."
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"A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it"
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"There are no truths, only moments of claryty passing for answers."
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"Lovers are angry, reconciled, entreat, thank, appoint, and finally speak all things, by their."
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"Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle."
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"Death pays all debts."
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"Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past."
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