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Writing is the painting of the voice.

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We cannot wish for that we know not.

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Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

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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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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

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We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.

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Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

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

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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

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All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

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Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

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Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.

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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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He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.

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Everything can be borne except contempt.

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The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.

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And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.

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