"One must have deeper motives and judge..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal
One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.
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“Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.”
“An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.”
“When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there.”
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“To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.”
“it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.”
“There is an ancient script that says, 'He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be ignorant.' But I took off the last word and it now reads for me like this: He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be!”