Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
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Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.
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In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.
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I have clearly noticed that often I have one opinion when I lie down and another one when I stand up, especially when I have eaten little and when I am tired.
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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.
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Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
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