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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.

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A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.

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It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.

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Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

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

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Fame is a heavy burden.

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The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

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You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

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Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

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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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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

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People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

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We only half live when we only half think.

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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

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To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

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One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

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