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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.

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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 opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

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You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

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It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.

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

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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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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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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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had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

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Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.

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All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

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We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.

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It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

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Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion

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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

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It is up to us to cultivate our garden.

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The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

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