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We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.

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My life is a struggle.

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

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The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.

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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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Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.

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The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

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We must cultivate our own garden.

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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

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Men argue. Nature acts.

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Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

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Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

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Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

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The superfluous is the most necessary.

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Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

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Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.

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Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!

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Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

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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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