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I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.

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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

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Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

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You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.

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

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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

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All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.

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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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Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

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Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

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Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.

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Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

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If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

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Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

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Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

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I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

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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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