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I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?

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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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To achieve a goal, a dream, a wish, you must plan it out for success!

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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

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Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.

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If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.

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A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.

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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

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The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

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The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

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Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

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

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He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.

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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

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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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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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Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

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By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

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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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