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Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way.

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Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.

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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

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A good imitation is the most perfect originality

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The best is the enemy of the good.

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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

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Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

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Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

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History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

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Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.

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Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

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Learn to cultivate your own garden.

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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

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Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

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The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

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Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing

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Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.

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Friends should be preferred to kings.

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Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

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