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Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.

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A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.

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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

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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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It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

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History is fables agreed upon.

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He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

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It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.

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Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

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It is up to us to cultivate our garden.

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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

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Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.

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The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

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I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.

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Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

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

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The superfluous is the most necessary.

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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

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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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