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A small number of choice books are sufficient.

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The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.

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Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

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The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

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In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

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It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

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We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

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The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

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Learn to cultivate your own garden.

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I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little

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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

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Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

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History is the study of the world's crime

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Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

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Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

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All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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