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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

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It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

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Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

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If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.

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There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

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The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

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If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

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Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

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I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

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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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We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

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Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.

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Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

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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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There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

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This is no time to make new enemies.

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