An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.
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I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.
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Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.
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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
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Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.
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What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?
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What we share with another ceases to be our own.
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