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"Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical."
"People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive."
"A trifle consoles us because a trifle upsets us."
"All men naturally hate one another; there could not be four friends in the world."
"An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just."
"Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature."
"Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off."
"Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might."
"Few friendships would remain, if each knew what his friend said of him when he wasn't there."
"God is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and circumference is nowhere."
"How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!"
"I cannot imagine a man without thought; he would be a stone or an animal."
"It is not certain that everything is uncertain."
"It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure."
"Man is a reed, the weakest of nature, but he is a thinking reed."
"Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it."
"Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason."
"Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent."
"The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions."
"Thought constitutes the greatness of man."
"What amazes me the most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness."
"Wisdom leads us back to childhood."
