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Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

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The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

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History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

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I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

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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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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

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History should be written as philosophy.

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No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives.

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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

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There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.

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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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It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

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Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.

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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

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In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.

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The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

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When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

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This is no time to make new enemies.

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