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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

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The ear is the avenue to the heart.

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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them.

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

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Common sense is not so common.

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Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

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

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Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

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Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.

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Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.

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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

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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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It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.

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It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.

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The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

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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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True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

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