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A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

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Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

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All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

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What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

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One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

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It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

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You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

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But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.

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He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

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I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?

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Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

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If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

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Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.

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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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