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The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

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It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.

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For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

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Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

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All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

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All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

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There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

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We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

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

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Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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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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Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.

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Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

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We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

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Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

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Will is wish, and liberty is power.

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All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.

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He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

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