At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
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In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man
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How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
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Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
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