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By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

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In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

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Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

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Virtuous men alone possess friends.

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The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.

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It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.

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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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Once the people begin to reason, all is lost

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Learn to cultivate your own garden.

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

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My life is a struggle.

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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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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

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This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

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The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

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We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

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

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