It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

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We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

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Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

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I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

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The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.

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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

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