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It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

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"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

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Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

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A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.

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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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Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.

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He is lifeless that is faultless.

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If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

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The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

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

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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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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

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Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

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Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!

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An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

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Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.

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Minds differ still more than faces.

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