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It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

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We only half live when we only half think.

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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

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Fear could never make virtue.

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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

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Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

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The way to be a bore is to say everything.

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

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I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

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Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

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We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

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Let us cultivate our garden.

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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.

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

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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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Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.

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The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.

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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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