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All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.

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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

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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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"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

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Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.

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Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

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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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A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

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Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

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The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.

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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

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

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Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

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Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.

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Change everything except your loves.

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The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

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I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

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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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My life is a struggle.

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Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

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