Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make more clear.
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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.Joseph Joubert
Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
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We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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