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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

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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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Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you say. What? A ferocious animal has sucked the blood of my relatives. I tell you to rid yourselves of this beast, and you ask me what you shall put in its place ?

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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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What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

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Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

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There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

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The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

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Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

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Historians are gossips who tease the dead

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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

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Injustice in the end produces independence.

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Fame is a heavy burden.

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But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

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Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

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Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

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