When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
DENIS DIDEROT
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I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
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One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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