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When the interests of mankind are at stake, they will obey with joy the man whom they believe to be wiser than themselves.
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My life has a limit, but my knowledge is without limit.
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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing: it refuses nothing. It receives, but does not keep.