Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
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Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.
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The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
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The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
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I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
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Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
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