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I know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying that I am an uncultured man. What stupid fools! Do they not know that I could reply to them as Marius did to the Roman patricians: "Do those who pride themselves on the works of other men claim to challenge mine?

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Especially learn how to see.

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Everything proceeds from everything else and everything becomes everything, and everything can be turned into everything else.

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Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful.

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Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

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Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.

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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

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The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

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Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everythin…

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There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

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