If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
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Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
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Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
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I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
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