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There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

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If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

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Perfect is the enemy of good.

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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

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If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

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The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

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Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

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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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Music is the pathway to the heart.

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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

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An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

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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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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

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Man is free the moment he wants to be.

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