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Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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A small number of choice books are sufficient.

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All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

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Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

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Clever tyrants are never punished.

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The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.

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Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.

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One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.

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The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

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Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

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Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.

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The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.

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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

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I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.

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In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.

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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

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Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

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The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their virtue. Everything in a religion which does not tend towards this goal must be considered foreign or dangerous.

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Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.

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