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There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescripti...more

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Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

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Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity.

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When we have to change an opinion about any one, we charge heavily to his account the inconvenience he thereby causes us.

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Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without...more

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People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality.

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Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this kind of vir...more

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One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.