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The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

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The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

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

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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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The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

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If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.

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

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There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

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Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.

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I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.

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Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

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We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

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What is not in nature can never be true.

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But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.

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Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

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Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws; they either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race.

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Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

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Writing is the painting of the voice.

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We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.

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