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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

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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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Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.

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Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

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A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

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Music is the pathway to the heart.

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Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

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A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.

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We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

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Now is not the time for making new enemies.

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He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

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It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

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

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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

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What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.

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