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- There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
- To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness, and passions; to…
- If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infant's reasoning to…
- First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
- It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
- All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
- Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
- When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry,…
- We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently…
- One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his…
- I am wholly yours - you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate…
- You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already…
- All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.
- In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or…
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