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The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.

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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

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He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

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The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

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Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

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All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

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England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

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What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.

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It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

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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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Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

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How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!

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You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

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Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

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My life is a struggle.

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Happiness is a good that nature sells us.

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The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.

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