Habit is stronger than reason.
From George Santayana
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
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