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“Only your friends steal your books.”
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“We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.”
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“I hate women because they always know where things are.”
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“What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.”
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“Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.”
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“If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.”
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“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”
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“Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.”
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“I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.”
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“A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.”
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“To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.”
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“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
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“All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.”
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“Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”
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“It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother’s womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.”
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“There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.”
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“History is the study of the world’s crime.”

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“Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.”
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“Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.”
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“One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.”
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“The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbors, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.”
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“We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.”
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“It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.”
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“Beware of the words ‘internal security,’ for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.”
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“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
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“It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.”
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“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. “

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“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
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“Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies.”
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“The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.”
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“I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.”
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“Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.”
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“There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.”
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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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“If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.”
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“No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.”
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“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
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“Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.”
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“In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.”
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“Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.”
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“Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.”
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“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”
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“I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.”
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“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
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“Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.”
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“Tears are the silent language of grief.”

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“The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.”
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