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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

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Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.

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And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.

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It is up to us to cultivate our garden.

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Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

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Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling

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Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

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The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

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Change everything except your loves.

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When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

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Tears are the silent language of grief.

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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

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We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

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You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

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The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

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He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

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