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Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

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I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

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We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

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It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

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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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I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

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All is but illusion and disaster.

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The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

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Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.

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We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

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It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

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‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

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Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

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Only your friends steal your books.

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Clever tyrants are never punished.

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Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.

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Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

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