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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

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Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

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We cannot wish for that we know not.

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Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

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Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

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They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that.

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If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.

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It is only through timidity that states are lost.

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I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

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Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.

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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.

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The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

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Happiness is not the portion of man.

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Better is the enemy of good.

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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

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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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Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.

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The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

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

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Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.

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