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I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.

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Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

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The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.

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I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity.

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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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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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If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

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The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

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Go get yourself crucified and then rise on the third day.

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Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

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What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.

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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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Let us help one another to bear our burdens.

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Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.

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Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

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Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.

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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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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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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

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