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What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

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the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run.

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True power and true politeness are above vanity.

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All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

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Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

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I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

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Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

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It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.

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

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Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.

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No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them

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It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

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It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

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It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

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