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Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first call promising.
One of the uses of history is to free us from a falsely imagined past.
The revolutionary spirit is mightily convenient in this: that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas.
he opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists
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…since the affairs of the world are subject to change and to a thousand and one different accidents
Experience attains many things which natural gifts alone could never attain.
To think contrary to one’s era is heroism. But to speak against it is madness.
