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There is no man so good who were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

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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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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

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Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to be deceived in my own inability; but sprinkling her...more

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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.

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...were these Essays of mine considerable enough to deserve a critical judgment, it might then, I think, fallout that they would not much take with co...more

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Il n'est si homme de bien, qu'il mette à l'examen des loix toutes ses actions et pensées, qui ne soit pendable dix fois en sa vie.(There is no man so ...more

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I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing ...more

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Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

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Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.

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Demetrius the grammarian finding in the temple of Delphos a knot of philosophers set chatting together, said to them, “Either I am much deceived,or by...more