The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

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Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

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The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity.

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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

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The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

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To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

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With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

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The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

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Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

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