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«It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.»
«Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.»
«I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.»
«Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable»
«Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don't happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data and yet we don't understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence.»
«It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.»
«Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age»
«Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith.»
«Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave»
«Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe - he has no other - and that instrument is reason»

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