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What can I hope when all is right?

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"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

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The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

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I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

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Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

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

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

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The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.

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There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

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A good imitation is the most perfect originality

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This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

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Better is the enemy of good.

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Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.

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Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

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Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

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Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

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The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

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It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.

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

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