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To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

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But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.

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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.

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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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My life is a struggle.

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Nature has always had more force than education.

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The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

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What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

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A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

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Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

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The perfect is the enemy of the good.

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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 superfluous is very necessary.

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There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that.

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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

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

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