Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Sound maxims are the germs of good strongly imprinted on the memory they fortify and strengthen the will.
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It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up. It is better to debate a question without deciding it than to decide it without debating it.
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Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make more clear.
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