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Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

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Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

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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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When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.

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The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

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God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.

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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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Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.

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The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.

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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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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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The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

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A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.

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The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

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The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

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Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

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Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

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