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Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!

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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

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The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

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I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.

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Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

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The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

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Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

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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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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

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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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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

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If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

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A good imitation is the most perfect originality

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Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

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All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

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He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.

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

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