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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

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

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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

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Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

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Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

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Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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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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Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

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An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

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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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The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

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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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Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

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