"To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them."
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"It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence."
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"Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind."
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"Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy."
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"All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers."
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"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, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it."
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"Prejudice is an opinion without judgment."
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"All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God."
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"Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace."
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"Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places."
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"Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it."
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"History never repeats itself. Man always does."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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"Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him."
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"A long dispute means both parties are wrong."
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"Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice."
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"True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others."
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"Self love is the instrument of our preservation."
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"Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts."
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"You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason."
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