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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

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This is no time to make new enemies.

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Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

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It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.

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Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

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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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Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.

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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

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Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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

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Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

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How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!

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A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.

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If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.

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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

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