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Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

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True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

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Will is wish, and liberty is power.

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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

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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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Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

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Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.

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Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

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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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The best is the enemy of the good.

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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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Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

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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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Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?

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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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Better is the enemy of good.

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We cannot wish for that we know not.

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