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

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

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I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

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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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He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.

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An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

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History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

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I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.

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The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.

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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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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

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War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

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The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

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It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

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What is not in nature can never be true.

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All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

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