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We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

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We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

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It is only through timidity that states are lost.

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Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

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One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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

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We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

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If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

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Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

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To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.

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Man is free the moment he wants to be.

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

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Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

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Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell.

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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

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Love truth, but pardon error.

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