There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish.

The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience

How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.

One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.

The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.

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