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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

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What can we say with certainty?

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Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

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Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

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The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.

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Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

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Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

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It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

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Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.

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Men argue. Nature acts.

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My life is a struggle.

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History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

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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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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason.

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Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

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It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.

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Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.

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