“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
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If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good, and man's highest happiness consists in striving to attain them. We must live, we must love, and we must believe that we live not only today on this scrap of earth, but have lived and shall live
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