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This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

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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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A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.

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Better is the enemy of good.

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

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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

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Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

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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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If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

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If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

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The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

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Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

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Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.

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Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

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