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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

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The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.

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

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Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

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The superfluous is the most necessary.

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Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

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All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

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One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

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One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.

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It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

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Love truth, but pardon error.

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It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.

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Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

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God created woman to tame man.

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My life is a struggle.

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They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that.

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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

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I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.

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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

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