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The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

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Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.

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You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

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Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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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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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

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The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.

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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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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

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Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

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To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them.

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What can we say with certainty?

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It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

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Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

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Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing

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Love truth, and pardon error.

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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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Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

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