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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Birth Difference Equality Men Virtue
Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Believe Faith One Liner Reason
She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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Blush Couple Love Relationship Romantic Voice
Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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Ending Money Thinking
I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Love Passion Time Wild
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Amuse Art Disease Medicine Nature Patient
I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Lion Myself Obey Rat Species Strong
Perfect is the enemy of good.
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Deep Enemy Goodness One Liner Perfection
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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Abundance Comfort Poor Poverty Rich Supply
Love truth, but pardon error.
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Error Love One Liner Truth
Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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Confidence Destroy Friendship Heart Sex Vanish
Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Evil Greatness Labour Preserve Want Wear
The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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Aim Discover Goals Goodness Philosophy Practice
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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Human Ignorance Knowledge Spirit Virgin Virtue
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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Allow Control Criticize Want
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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Age Creation Ideas Live Man Time

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