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Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.

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People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

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It is up to us to cultivate our garden.

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Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

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There can be no happiness without good health

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

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Happiness is a good that nature sells us.

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There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

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A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

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Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.

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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

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

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Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.

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Historians are gossips who tease the dead

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Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

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The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

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Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

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History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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