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- Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton…
- Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.
- Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois
- In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
- It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
- The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
- Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
- 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.
- The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
- 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…
- Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
- In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.
- The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there…
- We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of…
- Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.
- May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
- It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure…
- All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being…
- Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.
- Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them
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