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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.

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Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

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I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

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Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

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The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

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Happiness is not the portion of man.

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The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.

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

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A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.

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Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.

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There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

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The perfect is the enemy of the good.

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

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How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

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Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

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