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God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

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A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.

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It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.

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A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

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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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The ear is the avenue to the heart.

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A witty quote proves nothing.

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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

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To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

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Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.

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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

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Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.

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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

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Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

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The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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

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

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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

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