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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

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Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?

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You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.

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Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

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Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.

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England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

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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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Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

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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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One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

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There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

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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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Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

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The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

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Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

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Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!

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Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are not. It would be very comic that one part of the world was arranged, and the other were not; that one part of what happens had to happen and that another part of what happens did not have to happen. If one looks closely at it, one sees that the doctrine contrary to that of destiny is absurd; but there are many people destined to reason badly; others not to reason at all others to persecute those who reason.

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The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

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It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.

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