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To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.

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Love truth, but pardon error.

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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

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A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.

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Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

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But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.

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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

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The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

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Learn to cultivate your own garden.

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I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.

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What is not in nature can never be true.

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It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

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Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

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I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little

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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

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I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.

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Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

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History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

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The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

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God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

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