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Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.

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If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

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The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

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Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

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To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

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I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.

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Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.

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History should be written as philosophy.

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

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The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their virtue. Everything in a religion which does not tend towards this goal must be considered foreign or dangerous.

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It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

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Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

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

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God created woman to tame man.

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My life is a struggle.

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Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.

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The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.

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What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason.

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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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