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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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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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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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The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

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As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

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Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

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All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

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Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

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We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

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Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

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To hold a pen is to be at war.

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Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

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It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

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Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

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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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It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

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The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

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