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The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth.

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Anti-Goeze (1778)

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The worst of superstitions is to think
One's own most bearable.

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Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident.

Emilia Galotti (1772)

I have always said it—Nature meant woman to be her masterpiece.

Man, whence is he?
Too bad to be the work of a god, too good for the work of chance.

Trust no friend without faults, and love a maiden, but no angel.

Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899)

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