He's been solid. I think he's got a pretty good idea of what he's doing back there.


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India is decidedly not anything that was part of my upbringing or part of my experience or part of m...
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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything ...
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If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves ha...
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We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them ...
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To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
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I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
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A jester, a bad character. [Fr., Diseur de bon mots, mauvais caractere.]
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It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.
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We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view t...
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By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and ma...
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For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, ...
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Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, stil...
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We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
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We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us...
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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
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Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about e...
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People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by other...
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One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of lif...
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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which h...
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Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
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Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force.
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Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea ...
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Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired : even I who write this, a...
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The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its ori...
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Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and...
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What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admi...
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Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous...
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The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thu...
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A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.
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