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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

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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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He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

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I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

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A good action is preferable to an argument.

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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

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It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

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What can we say with certainty?

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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

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A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

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We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

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A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.

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Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

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In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

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Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

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The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.

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To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.

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