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The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

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The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

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The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

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Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

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Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

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Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

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Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

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We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

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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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Paradise is where I am

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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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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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In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

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All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

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The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

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The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.

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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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