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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

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Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

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I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.

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To hold a pen is to be at war.

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

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The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.

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Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

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

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History should be written as philosophy.

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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.

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What can I hope when all is right?

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Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

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The superfluous is very necessary.

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Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

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

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Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.

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Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

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All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

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