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" We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved. "
Voltaire
Must
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" When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money. "
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" Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. "
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" Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes. "
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" Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. "
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" We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly. "
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" One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. "
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" He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it. "
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" We are rarely proud when we are alone. "
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" Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him. "
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" Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. "
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" I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it. "
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Prayer
God
" The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself. "
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Much
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" The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all. "
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" Prejudices are what fools use for reason. "
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" It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. "
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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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Just
Only
" The superfluous, a very necessary thing. "
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Very
Necessary
" To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd. "
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Him
Impossible
" Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same. "
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Away
Faults
" Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. "
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Virtue
Always
Shade
" I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition. "
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Loving
Friends
" Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest. "
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" There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times. "
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Men
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" Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable. "
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Life
Work
Without
" God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. "
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Us
Gift
God
" We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest. "
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Gardening
Man
Rest
" Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts. "
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" The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs. "
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