If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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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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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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