Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate to gravity, levity, elastic force, the resistance of fluids, and the like forces, whether attractive or impulsive; and therefore we offer this work as mathematical principles of philosophy; for all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.
Isaac Newton
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I'll never forget the fall colors on the Berkshires.
William Standish Knowles
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Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.
Hannah Arendt
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The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
Miguel de Cervantes
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The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.
William Law
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Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.
Eustace Budgell