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In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.

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A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.

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Love truth, but pardon error.

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We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

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But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

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I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

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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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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

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To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them.

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Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.

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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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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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If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

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The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.

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Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

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The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

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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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