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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them

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I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.

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Will is wish, and liberty is power.

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Friends should be preferred to kings.

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Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

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Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

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He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

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Perfect is the enemy of good.

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Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.

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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

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Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.

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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

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He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

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But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

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Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell.

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The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

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