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Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

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Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

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When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon.

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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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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 multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

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Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.

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Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

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Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.

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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

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Minds differ still more than faces.

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Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

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

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I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.

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What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.

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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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Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

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But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

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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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