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“It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.”
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“Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
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“I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.”
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“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
[Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]”
― On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters
[Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]”
― On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters
“There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.”
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