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The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

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A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.

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There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

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Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

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The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

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Men argue. Nature acts.

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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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The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.

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

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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

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History is the lie commonly agreed upon.

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

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Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

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The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

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The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

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The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

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