"Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is..."
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"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others..."
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"As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit..."
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"Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause...."
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"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one...."
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"Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous...."
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"He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise...."
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"History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes...."
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"I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for..."
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"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my..."
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"I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which..."
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"I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms...."
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"If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated...."
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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him...."
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"If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something..."
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"It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent..."
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"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities..."
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"It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce...."
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"Let us work without theorizing, 'Tis the only way to make life endurable...."
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"Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass..."
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"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination...."
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"Love truth, but pardon error."
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"Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and speech only to..."
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"No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking...."
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"Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and..."
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"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or..."
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"Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers..."
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"Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling..."
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"Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad..."
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"The best is the enemy of the good."
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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant...."
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"The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it...."
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"The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has..."
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"To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd...."
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"Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe...."
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"Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool...."
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"We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other..."
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"When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself..."
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"When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who..."
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"When is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion...."
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"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors...."
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"You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some..."
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