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Instead of contradicting my words people ought to act in my spirit.
88
Those who oppose intellectual truths do but stir up the fire, and the cinders fly about and burn what they had else not touched.
89
Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.
90
What a long time people were vainly disputing about the Antipodes!
91
Certain minds must be allowed their peculiarities.
92
Snow is false purity.
93
Whoso shrinks from ideas ends by having nothing but sensations.
94
Those from whom we are always learning are rightly called our masters; but not every one who teaches us deserves this title.
95
It is with you as with the sea: the most varied names are given to what is in the end only salt water.
96
It is said that vain self-praise stinks in the nostrils. That may be so; but for the kind of smell which comes from unjust blame by others the public has no nose at all.