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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

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

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A witty quote proves nothing.

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Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

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The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

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Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

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The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

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A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.

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

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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

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We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

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