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Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

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I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.

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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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Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

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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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He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

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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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Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

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The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

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

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‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

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For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.

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Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

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The man who says to me, "Believe as I do, or God will damn you," will presently say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you."

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He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

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Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

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