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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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You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

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He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

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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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When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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Minds differ still more than faces.

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

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Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

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Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

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Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

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

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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

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Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

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The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

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Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

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Love truth, but pardon error.

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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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