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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

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It is up to us to cultivate our garden.

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Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

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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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Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

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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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The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

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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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For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.

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

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A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

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Wine is the divine juice of September.

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If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

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Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.

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No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives.

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A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

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Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

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

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One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

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