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The unexamined life is not worth living.
Man is the measure of all things: of those which are, that they are; of those which are not, that they are not.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
His mind is open; yes, it is so open that nothing is retained; ideas simply pass through him.
The total absence of humour from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense - nonsense upon stilts.
The centre of me is always and eternally a terrible pain.
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
Every instant of time is a pinprick of eternity. All things are petty, easily changed, vanishing away.
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.
Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense - nonsense upon stilts.
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