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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

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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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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

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History should be written as philosophy.

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A witty saying proves nothing.

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Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

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Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

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Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.

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Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.

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Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

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This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

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What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.

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What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason.

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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

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The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.

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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

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The best way to be boring is to include everything.

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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

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Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

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