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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

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It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

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I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?

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It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

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Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

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The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.

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God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

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Nature has always had more force than education.

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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

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I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

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What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

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Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.

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"You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin.

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Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

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He who seeks truth should be of no country.

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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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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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When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?

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I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

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