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Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

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We are rarely proud when we are alone.

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I have wanted to kill myself a million times, but somehow I am still in love with life.

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Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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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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The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

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The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

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Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

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Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

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Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

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my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame

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We must cultivate our own garden.

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History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

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Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

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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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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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The way to be a bore is to say everything.

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