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Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

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The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

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If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

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He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.

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All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.

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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

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I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

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It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

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The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.

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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.

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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

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Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

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The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.

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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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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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Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion

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Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.

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