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One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without...
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we...
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But pain… seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead...
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I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and...
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The great tragedy of Science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an...
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Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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God be between you and harm in all the empty places where you must...
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It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
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His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling,...