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Which Is The Greater Merit, To Enlighten The Human Race, Which Remains Forever, Or To Save One's Fatherland, Which Is Perishable?

Patriotism Is An Ephemeral Motive That Scarcely Ever Outlasts The Particular Threat To Society That Aroused It.

Evil Always Turns Up In This World Through Some Genius Or Other.

At An Early Age I Sucked Up The Milk Of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato And Euripides, Diluted With That Of Moses And The Prophets.

The Decisions Of Law Courts Should Never Be Printed: In The Long Run, They Form A Counter Authority To The Law.