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It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.

In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.

All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish.

Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means of ridicule or of calumny. No one shall be more virtuous or more intellectually gifted than others. Whoever, by the irresistable force of genius, rises above the common herd is certain to be ostracized by society, which will pursue him with such merciless derision and detraction that at last he will be compelled to retreat into the solitude of his thoughts.