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The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

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But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

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A good imitation is the most perfect originality

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Change everything except your loves.

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Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.

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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

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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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Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.

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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

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The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

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What can we say with certainty?

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Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

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History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

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If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

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England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

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To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.

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