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The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

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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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God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

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You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

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Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?

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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

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Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

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Man is free the moment he wants to be.

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Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

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There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

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There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.

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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

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The superfluous is very necessary.

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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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To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

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We are all guilty of the good we did not do

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All is but illusion and disaster.

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