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

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So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

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Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

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The perfect is the enemy of the good.

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Will is wish, and liberty is power.

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Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

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The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

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If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

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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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It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

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History should be written as philosophy.

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To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them.

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The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

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Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

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But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

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A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.

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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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