Quote #101

Each soul is crowned. Each soul wears the purple and the tiara; and only those are good citizens of the intellectual world who give to every other human being every right that they claim for themselves, and only those are traitors in the great realm of thought who abandon reason and appeal to force.

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  3. Each is entitled to the honest opinion of all.
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  6. Every library is an arsenal.
  7. Do not, I pray you, pluck from the heart the sweet flower of pity and trample it in the bloody dust of superstition.
  8. Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

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