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I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.

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We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

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It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

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A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.

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This is no time to make new enemies.

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

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The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.

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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

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In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

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Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did after him. ... He carried this spirit of geometry and invention into optics, which under him became a completely new art.

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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.

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The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.

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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

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Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.

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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

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All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

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