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Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.

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Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

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Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

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Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

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It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

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All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

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I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

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Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

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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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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

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I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.

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Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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Fear could never make virtue.

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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

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He is lifeless that is faultless.

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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

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Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!

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Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?

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