Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

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Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

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Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

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It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

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When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

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By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

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Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

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What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

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It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

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