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1798, June 1798, June 4th 1798, Europe, the EU, …the Czech Republic,
the world,
eastern Europe,
Bohemia,
the Northern Hemisphere,
Duchcov, Africa-Eurasia,
Eurasia, US postal Group 4, the UK European postal area, the Central European Time region
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"In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man."; "I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent."; "I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is it shines upon my countenance, and there it can easily be detected by any physiognomist."; "I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself."; "I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel."; …"I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy."; "I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools."; "I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude."; "I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company."; "I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms."; "I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death."; "I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent."; "Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved."; "Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom."; "God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle."; "God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer."; "For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent."; "By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel."; "As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other."
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