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History is fables agreed upon.

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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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

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Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

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If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

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It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

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Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

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A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.

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

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The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

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I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

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The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.

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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

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The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

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Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

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Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

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The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

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Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

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When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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