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Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.

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Friends should be preferred to kings.

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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

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A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

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The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

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By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

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Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.

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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

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What is not in nature can never be true.

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The perfect is the enemy of the good.

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One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

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A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.

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

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Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

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There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

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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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When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.

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To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.

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