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Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

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The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

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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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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

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A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

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Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.

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Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

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Love truth, and pardon error.

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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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My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.

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What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

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It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

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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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But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.

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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

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Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.

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The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

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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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