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Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.

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

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

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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

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If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

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It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

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Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.

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It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

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Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

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Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

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Almost all life depends on probabilities.

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History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

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What can I hope when all is right?

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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

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Virtuous men alone possess friends.

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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

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