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Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.