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When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

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Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.

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The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.

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It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

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Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

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I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.

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What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

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Man is free the moment he wants to be.

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If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

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The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.

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Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

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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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We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

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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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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

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Wine is the divine juice of September.

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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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People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

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