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Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?

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I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

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Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.

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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

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The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

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Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

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It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

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Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

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

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Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

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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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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

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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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What is not in nature can never be true.

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We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

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I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

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We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.

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Dare to think for yourself.

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