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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

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If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

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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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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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The road to the heart is the ear

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You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.

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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

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I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

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So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

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I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.

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History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

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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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The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

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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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Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

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If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

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Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

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All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

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