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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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What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

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An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.

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Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

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It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

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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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This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

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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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When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

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Love truth, but pardon error.

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It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

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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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If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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All is but illusion and disaster.

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What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.

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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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Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

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How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!

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