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Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

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A witty quote proves nothing.

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Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

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History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

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Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

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Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.

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Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

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Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

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Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

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It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

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The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

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Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.

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The superfluous is very necessary.

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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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Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

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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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To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.

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I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little

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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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