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History is fables agreed upon.

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I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

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There can be no happiness without good health

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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

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When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?

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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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I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

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If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

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Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.

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Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.

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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

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Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.

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You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.

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Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.

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We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

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What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.

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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

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