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A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.

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Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

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The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

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England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

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I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.

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I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

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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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The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

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Everything can be borne except contempt.

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The son of God is the same as the son of man; the son of man is the same as the son of God. God, the father, is the same as Christ, the son; Christ, the son, is the same as God, the father. This language may appear confused to unbelievers, but Christians will readily understand it.

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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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I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

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Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

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To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

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History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

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Virtuous men alone possess friends.

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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

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Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.

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It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.

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