Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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