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History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

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All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

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The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

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Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

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Will is wish, and liberty is power.

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There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

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Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

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I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

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It is only through timidity that states are lost.

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If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

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Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

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Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

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Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

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Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

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There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.

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