The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.
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Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.
Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.
We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.