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Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.

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The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

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Historians are gossips who tease the dead

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I have wanted to kill myself a million times, but somehow I am still in love with life.

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The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.

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Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.

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Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden.

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There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

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He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.

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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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The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

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Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

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It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.

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the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run.

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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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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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Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.

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

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Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

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