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The ear is the avenue to the heart.

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The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

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The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

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It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

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Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

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The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

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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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The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

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Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!

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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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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

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It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

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The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

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The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

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Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

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True power and true politeness are above vanity.

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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

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