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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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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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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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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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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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