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I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

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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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Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

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We must cultivate our own garden.

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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

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This is no time to be making new enemies.

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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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The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

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

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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.

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It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

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A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

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Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

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Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.

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The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.

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We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.

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True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

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