That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
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Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
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I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.
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Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
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