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Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

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No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives.

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Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

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Now is not the time for making new enemies.

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We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

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I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?

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What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

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All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

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If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

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The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.

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I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

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The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.

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The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

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Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.

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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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Historians are gossips who tease the dead

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Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

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Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

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Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

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