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Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

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The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

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All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

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The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

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It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

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Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

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It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

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All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

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The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

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I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.

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The superfluous is the most necessary.

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They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that.

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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

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But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.

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Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

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Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

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