The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

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  I think, therefore I am.

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  Live among men as if God beheld you; speak with God as if men were listening.

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  The longer I know the joys of this world, the less I value them.

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  To understand the world, one must sometimes turn away from it.

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  There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

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  The greatest immorality is stupidity.

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