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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

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Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!

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

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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

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He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

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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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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

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It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

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

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Virtuous men alone possess friends.

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If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

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It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

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The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.

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But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

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This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

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The best way to be boring is to include everything.

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Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.

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