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Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

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Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing

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I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

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A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

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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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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

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

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My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.

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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

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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 the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

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No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives.

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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

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We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

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It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

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Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

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There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

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