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- Let us confess it: evil strides the world.
- God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
- Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- 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,…
- Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
- What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -…
- The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
- We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
- The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
- If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
- The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
- Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
- In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.
- This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us,…
- But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.
- I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the…
- Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.
- Let us cultivate our garden.
- Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.
- I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of…
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