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Correspondent Inspirational Quotes (1588)

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Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.
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The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.
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The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.
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The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.
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A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.
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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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The Deluge: A punishment inflicted on the human race by an all-knowing God, who, through not having foreseen the wickedness of men, repented of having made them, and drowned them once for all to make them better - an act which, as we all know, was accompanied by the greatest success.
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The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.
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Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.
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Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.
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The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'
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Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
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Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.
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War is the greatest of all crimes and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.
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Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.
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Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it
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The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.
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Use, do not abuse neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
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If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.
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The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.
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The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
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We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.
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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
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