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The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

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He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

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If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

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All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

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Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

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Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

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What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

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My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.

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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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It is up to us to cultivate our garden.

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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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If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

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How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!

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Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did after him. ... He carried this spirit of geometry and invention into optics, which under him became a completely new art.

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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

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