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Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

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Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

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An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

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Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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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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What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.

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Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

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The ear is the avenue to the heart.

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There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

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Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

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Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

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Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

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History never repeats itself. Man always does.

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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

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Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

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Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

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I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

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