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

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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

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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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In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

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A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

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The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

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The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

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When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.

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

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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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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

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We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.

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

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I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

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Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

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