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By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

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The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

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It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.

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Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

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The best way to be boring is to include everything.

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The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

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It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.

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Everything can be borne except contempt.

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True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

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The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.

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A small number of choice books are sufficient.

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The superfluous is the most necessary.

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Let us help one another to bear our burdens.

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.

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