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Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.

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The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

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Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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He who seeks truth should be of no country.

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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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It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives.

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There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.

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Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

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Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are not. It would be very comic that one part of the world was arranged, and the other were not; that one part of what happens had to happen and that another part of what happens did not have to happen. If one looks closely at it, one sees that the doctrine contrary to that of destiny is absurd; but there are many people destined to reason badly; others not to reason at all others to persecute those who reason.

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A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

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Men argue. Nature acts.

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Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

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Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

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Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

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