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We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

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I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

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All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

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There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

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Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

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Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing

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Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

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Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

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A witty saying proves nothing.

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God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

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A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.

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

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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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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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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

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The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.

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Men argue. Nature acts.

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Now is not the time for making new enemies.

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