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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

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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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Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

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The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

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All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

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Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.

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It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

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He who seeks truth should be of no country.

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But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

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I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.

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Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.

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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

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Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.

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True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

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The man who says to me, "Believe as I do, or God will damn you," will presently say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you."

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Music is the pathway to the heart.

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