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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

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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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History never repeats itself. Man always does.

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A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

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Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

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Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

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

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Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.

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Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.

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Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

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Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

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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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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

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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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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

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Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

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Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

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The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

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