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Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Bad company is as instructive as debauchery: one is indemnified for the loss of innocence by the loss of prejudice.
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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge . . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation.
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Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.
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Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm.
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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact.
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What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.
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A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence skepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.
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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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