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Men argue. Nature acts.

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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

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To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

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Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!

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If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

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It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.

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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

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Paradise is where I am

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I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?

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This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

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There are no sects in geometry.

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They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that.

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

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All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

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Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

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