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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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

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Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.

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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

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Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

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It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

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Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you say. What? A ferocious animal has sucked the blood of my relatives. I tell you to rid yourselves of this beast, and you ask me what you shall put in its place ?

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Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.

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What can we say with certainty?

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The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

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To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

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Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

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

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The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

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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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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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Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

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One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

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Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

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