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I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

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The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

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Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.

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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

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

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

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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

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Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.

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Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

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Friends should be preferred to kings.

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

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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

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History is the lie commonly agreed upon.

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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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It is only through timidity that states are lost.

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It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

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Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

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It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.

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