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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

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

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We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.

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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

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The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

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‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives.

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Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

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I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

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

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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

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By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

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As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

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It is up to us to cultivate our garden.

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If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.

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The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.

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