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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

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If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

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I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.

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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

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

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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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There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.

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History is the study of the world's crime

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The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

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All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

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Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.

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Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

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

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I hate women because they always know where things are.

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All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.

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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

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This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

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He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

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