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Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

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Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

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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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If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

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Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

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The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.

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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

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I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.

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Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

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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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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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The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

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Dare to think for yourself.

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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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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

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The ear is the avenue to the heart.

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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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Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

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Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

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The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

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