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It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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The ear is the avenue to the heart.

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Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

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If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

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The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.

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my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame

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Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

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There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

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Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.

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Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.

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We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.

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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

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It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

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It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

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Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

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