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Labels are devices for saving talkative persons the trouble of thinking. - [Thinking] Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theatre of the tragedy of man. - [Nature] The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. - [Life] The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget. - [Politicians] Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. - [Religion] You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. - [Silence] Those who would tread politics and morality apart will never understand the one or the other. - Rousseau (p. 380) [Politics] You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration. - Rousseau (p. 402) [Proof]
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