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If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

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

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True power and true politeness are above vanity.

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The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

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Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

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Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

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There can be no happiness without good health

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

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The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.

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The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

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So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

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Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

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Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.

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Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

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Let us help one another to bear our burdens.

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When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.

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Love truth, and pardon error.

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