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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

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To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.

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There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

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Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

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The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

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Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

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You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

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Only your friends steal your books.

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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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A witty quote proves nothing.

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I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

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

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

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We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

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We are rarely proud when we are alone.

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Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

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