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Almost all life depends on probabilities.

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Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

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Fear could never make virtue.

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What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

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Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.

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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

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To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

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I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?

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Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

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What can we say with certainty?

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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

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All is but illusion and disaster.

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If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

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Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

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But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

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

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The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.

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All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

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