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Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

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We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom.

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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

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And in this we must for the most part entertain ourselves with ourselves, and so privately that no exotic knowledge or communication be admitted there...more

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Without doubt, it is a delightful harmony when doing and saying go together.

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I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary’s force of reas...more

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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

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Atheism being a proposition as unnatural as monstrous, difficult also and hard to establish in the human understanding, how arrogant soever, there are...more

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Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave any...more