"What is honored in a country will be cultivated there."
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"States are as the men, they grow out of human characters."
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"No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding."
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"The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so."
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"By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred of a nature so completely unexpected--so entirely novel--so utterly at variance with preconceived opinions--as to leave no doubt on my mind that long ere this all Europe is in an uproar, all physics in a ferment, all reason and astronomy together by the ears."
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"Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things, and thence proceed to greater."
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"Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed."
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"If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please."
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"Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived."
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"Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it."
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"And what is the greatest number? Number one."
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"If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion."
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"A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones."
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"Dancers are the athletes of God."
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"A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic."
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"A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state."
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"Music is the melody whose text is the world."
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"No one knows enough to be a pessimist"
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"Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver."
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"I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers."
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