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The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

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You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

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Virtuous men alone possess friends.

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

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Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

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What is not in nature can never be true.

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The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

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Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.

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

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Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

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Minds differ still more than faces.

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The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.

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In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.

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It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.

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The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.

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God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.

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It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

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