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All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

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Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

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If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

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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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Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

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There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

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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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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

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Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

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Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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

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Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.

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God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.

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There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.

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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

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Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

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