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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

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When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.

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Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

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Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.

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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

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I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

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The superfluous is very necessary.

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I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

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"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

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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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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

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Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

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He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

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Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

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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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History should be written as philosophy.

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It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

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To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.

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