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The best is the enemy of the good.

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What can I hope when all is right?

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Los Padres have everything and the people have nothing; 'tis the masterpiece of reason and justice. For my part, I know nothing so divine as Los Padres who make war on Kings of Spain and Portugal and in Europe act as their confessors; who here kill Spaniards and at Madrid send them to Heaven.

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The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.

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

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Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

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When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon.

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Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

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the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run.

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If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.

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All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.

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I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.

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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

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What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.

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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

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To hold a pen is to be at war.

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You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

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There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

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What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

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Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

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