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Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.

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Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

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When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

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the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run.

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It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

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"You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin.

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If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

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We only half live when we only half think.

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The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

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Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

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We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

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