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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

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Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.

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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

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Injustice in the end produces independence.

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We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

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All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

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Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

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Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.

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Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did after him. ... He carried this spirit of geometry and invention into optics, which under him became a completely new art.

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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

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He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

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This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

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Almost all life depends on probabilities.

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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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Will is wish, and liberty is power.

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Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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