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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

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All is but illusion and disaster.

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History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

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Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

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Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

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It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

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You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

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Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

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There are no sects in geometry.

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Virtuous men alone possess friends.

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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

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The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.

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A witty saying proves nothing.

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Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

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One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.

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What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

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