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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

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In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

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Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

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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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Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.

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The superfluous is the most necessary.

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When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.

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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

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History is the study of the world's crime

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Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it

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Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

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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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It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

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Now is not the time for making new enemies.

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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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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

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