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We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

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War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

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Learn to cultivate your own garden.

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A good action is preferable to an argument.

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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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I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

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It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.

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All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.

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Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

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He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

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Music is the pathway to the heart.

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It is up to us to cultivate our garden.

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A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.

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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

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Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.

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Wine is the divine juice of September.

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The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.

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Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

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