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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

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Almost all life depends on probabilities.

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I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

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Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling

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Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.

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For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

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I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

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I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

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Better is the enemy of good.

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Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

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The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

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I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

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Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

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What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.

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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

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Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

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He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.

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They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that.

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It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

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