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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

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The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

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Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.

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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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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

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Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

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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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My life is a struggle.

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I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

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

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I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

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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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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

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Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

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I have wanted to kill myself a million times, but somehow I am still in love with life.

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All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

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Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!

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