“I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable; because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain; and beyond our...”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

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“Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”

― Albert Camus, The Fall

“And we would all try to do it in our heads, and all arrive at different results, and sneer at one another.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

“I may hope, therefore, that my chance of escaping serious errors is as good as that of anyone else, who might have been persuaded to undertake the somewhat perilous enterprise in which I find myself engaged.”

― Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

“Little girl, a memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasure—an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment: is it not?”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VI

“The need for government in these respects arises because absolute freedom is impossible. However attractive anarchy may be as a philosophy, it is not feasible in a world of imperfect men.”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

“The justice which began with the maxim, 'Everything can be paid off, everything must be paid off,' ends with connivance at the escape of those who cannot pay to escape—it ends, like every good thing on earth, by destroying itself.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality

“Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery, and that thy Teacher knows.”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

“It is silliness to live when to live is torment; and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.”

― William Shakespeare, Othello

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