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The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

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The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

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But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.

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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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History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

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the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run.

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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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All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.

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Happiness is a good that nature sells us.

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Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

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What can we say with certainty?

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

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

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A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.

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The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.

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The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

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Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

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