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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

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Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

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Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

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Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.

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The ear is the avenue to the heart.

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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

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Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

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It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

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Change everything except your loves.

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It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

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He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

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Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.

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He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

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Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

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What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

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We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

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Fame is a heavy burden.

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