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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Lost in an immense forest at night, I have only a little light to show me the way. Along comes a stranger who says to me: Friend blow out your candle, the better to find your way. This stranger is a theologian.
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One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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The best doctor is the one you run for and can't find.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
October 5, 1713
Died:
July 31, 1784
(aged 70)
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