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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

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Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of th...more

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..we have become wealthy, and wealth is the prelude to art. In every country where centuries of physical effort have accumulated the means for luxury ...more

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We are tossed about by external causes in many ways, and like waves driven by contrary winds, we waver and are unconscious of the issue and our fate.'...more

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The matter of sedition is of two kinds: much poverty and much discontentment....The causes and motives of sedition are, innovation in religion; taxes;...more

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And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both mar...more

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But he had expressed to Mme. du Chatelet the hope that a way out might lie in applying philosophy to history, and endeavoring to trace, beneath the fl...more