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Happiness is not the portion of man.

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

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And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.

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The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

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A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

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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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Nature has always had more force than education.

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No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives.

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All is but illusion and disaster.

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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

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The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.

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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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Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

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To hold a pen is to be at war.

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The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

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Learn to cultivate your own garden.

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If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

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We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.

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The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

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