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Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.

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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

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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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What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

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We are rarely proud when we are alone.

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The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

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We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

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Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

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He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

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Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing

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Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

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The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.

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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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

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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

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