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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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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

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A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.

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Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.

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We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

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Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.

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All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

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had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

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A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.

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The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.

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A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

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I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

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

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

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

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If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.

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A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.

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Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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