Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
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Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
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It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.
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Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart but women will read the heart of man better than they.
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