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If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

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The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

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This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

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

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But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

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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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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

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A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

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Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.

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This is no time to be making new enemies.

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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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my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame

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The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

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What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

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The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

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We are all guilty of the good we did not do

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The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

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Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

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