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God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

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What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.

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Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

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Writing is the painting of the voice.

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To achieve a goal, a dream, a wish, you must plan it out for success!

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To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

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To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

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The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

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Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.

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It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

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The superfluous is the most necessary.

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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

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What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

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What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

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The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

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The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.

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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

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