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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

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Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way.

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He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

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Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.

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Virtuous men alone possess friends.

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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

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A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.

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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

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It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

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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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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

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Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most

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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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