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I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

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But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.

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Happiness is a good that nature sells us.

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The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

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Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

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If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

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The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.

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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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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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It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

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Clever tyrants are never punished.

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Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

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If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.

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Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!

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If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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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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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

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A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.

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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

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Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

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