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True power and true politeness are above vanity.

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It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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

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If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

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The best way to be boring is to include everything.

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Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did after him. ... He carried this spirit of geometry and invention into optics, which under him became a completely new art.

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The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.

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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

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Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing

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Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.

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I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

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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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Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

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If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.

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The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

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What is not in nature can never be true.

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We are rarely proud when we are alone.

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The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

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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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