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What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

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A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

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Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

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Los Padres have everything and the people have nothing; 'tis the masterpiece of reason and justice. For my part, I know nothing so divine as Los Padres who make war on Kings of Spain and Portugal and in Europe act as their confessors; who here kill Spaniards and at Madrid send them to Heaven.

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

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The ear is the avenue to the heart.

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Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling

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The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.

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Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.

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Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

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I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

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The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

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There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

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You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

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If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

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Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.

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Men argue. Nature acts.

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