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Paradise is where I am

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

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Everything can be borne except contempt.

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We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.

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Fame is a heavy burden.

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I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?

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Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

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Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.

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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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Writing is the painting of the voice.

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When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon.

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A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

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Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.

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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

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The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.

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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

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I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

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Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

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