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Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

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Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

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One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

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There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

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You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

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The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

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It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

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Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

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Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

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Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

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Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

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Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

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I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.

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The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

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As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

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