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To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.

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The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

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Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

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We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.

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Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.

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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

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He is lifeless that is faultless.

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But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.

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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

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He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

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I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.

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If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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To hold a pen is to be at war.

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Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

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

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