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You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

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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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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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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

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History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

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A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.

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Nature has always had more force than education.

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You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason.

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Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

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The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

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What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.

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It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

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The best is the enemy of the good.

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Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.

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Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

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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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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

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What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

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Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.

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