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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

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Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

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We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

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What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

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To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

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We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

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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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Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

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The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

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Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

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Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

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I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.

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The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

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Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

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True power and true politeness are above vanity.

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A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.

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Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

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