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And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.

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I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

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I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

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Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

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It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

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The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

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I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

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To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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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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Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

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

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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

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So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.

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The superfluous is the most necessary.

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It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

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Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

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Men argue. Nature acts.

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