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People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

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Fame is a heavy burden.

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It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.

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We are all guilty of the good we did not do

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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

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It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

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Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

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

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I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

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A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.

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Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.

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Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

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All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.

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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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It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

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In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

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There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.

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It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

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