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It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

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Better is the enemy of good.

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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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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

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Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

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My life is a struggle.

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A good action is preferable to an argument.

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I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

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I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.

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Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

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Almost all life depends on probabilities.

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Learn to cultivate your own garden.

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Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

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There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.

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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

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Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.

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Nature has always had more force than education.

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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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If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.

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