The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.

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I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate human actions, but to understand them.

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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

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Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

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