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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

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

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I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.

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Fear could never make virtue.

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The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.

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Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason.

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Minds differ still more than faces.

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What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

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Let us cultivate our garden.

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Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

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Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

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One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

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A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

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Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

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Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.

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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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The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

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He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

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