"Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate."
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"Revolutions are the locomotives of history."
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"It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error."
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"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop."
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"Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking."
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"What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me."
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"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men."
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"He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason."
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"Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself."
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"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell."
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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."
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"My ex-wife was a philosophy major at NYU. Yeah, she and I used to have deep philosophical discussions where she would prove that I didn't exist."
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"God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering."
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"In war there is no prize for runner-up."
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"But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience."
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"An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis."
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"All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows."
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"Attention to health is life greatest hindrance."
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"The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue."
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"Everything in the world is purchased by labor."
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