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What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

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Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

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The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

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The man who says to me, "Believe as I do, or God will damn you," will presently say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you."

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

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It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

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I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

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The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

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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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A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.

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It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

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If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

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The superfluous is the most necessary.

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He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.

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We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

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All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.

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