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All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

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Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

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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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Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

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We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

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A small number of choice books are sufficient.

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The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

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Happiness is a good that nature sells us.

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The best way to be boring is to include everything.

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The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.

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Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

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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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If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

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In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

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It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.

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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

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The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

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