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We must cultivate our own garden.

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Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

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Friends should be preferred to kings.

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A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

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What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

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The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

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A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

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The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

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A witty saying proves nothing.

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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This is no time to be making new enemies.

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Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.

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If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.

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Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

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Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.

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

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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.

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I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

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