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Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

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Wine is the divine juice of September.

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We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

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They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that.

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The superfluous is very necessary.

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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

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Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.

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Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

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I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.

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Love truth, and pardon error.

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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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What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

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Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

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The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

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It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

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Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

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The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

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Common sense is not so common.

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