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Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

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my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame

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Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

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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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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

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

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If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

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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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All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

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An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.

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Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

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My life is a struggle.

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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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All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

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Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

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You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

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History never repeats itself. Man always does.

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The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

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