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It is up to us to cultivate our garden.

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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

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Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.

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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

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I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?

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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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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

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History should be written as philosophy.

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History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

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A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

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Everything can be borne except contempt.

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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

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Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

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True power and true politeness are above vanity.

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All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.

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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

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Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.

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Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?

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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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