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Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

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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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The perfect is the enemy of the good.

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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.

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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

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Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.

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Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

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Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

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What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.

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Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

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Music is the pathway to the heart.

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The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.

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People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

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The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

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Nature has always had more force than education.

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‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

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