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Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

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

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Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

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If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

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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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You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

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History should be written as philosophy.

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I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

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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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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.

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Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

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Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

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The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

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All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

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Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

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

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