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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.

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There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

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Learn to cultivate your own garden.

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So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

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We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

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Let us help one another to bear our burdens.

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Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

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Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.

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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 ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

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It is only through timidity that states are lost.

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

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

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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

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Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

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