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True power and true politeness are above vanity.

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He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.

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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 ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

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To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.

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For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

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When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon.

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Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing

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Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

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

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Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you say. What? A ferocious animal has sucked the blood of my relatives. I tell you to rid yourselves of this beast, and you ask me what you shall put in its place ?

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They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that.

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Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.

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Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

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The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.

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There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

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Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

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