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Correspondent Inspirational Quotes (1588)

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The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.
Voltaire
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England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.
Voltaire
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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
Voltaire
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We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.
Madame de Stael
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Abstract truth is the eye of reason.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.
Voltaire
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Jesse Marcel's unproven story was now primetime mythology. This remote New Mexico town had hit the jackpot. It didn't matter that there wasn't a shred of credible evidence to support the claim that a flying saucer crashed here. It didn't matter that there were no credible witnesses to alien bodies.
Peter Jennings
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Chemistry... is like the maid occupied with daily civilisation she is busy with fertilisers, medicines, glass, insecticides ... for she dispenses the recipes.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Liberty is not to be found in any form of government she is in the heart of the free man he bears her with him everywhere.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
Denis Diderot
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This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity
Voltaire
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The general will is always right.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
Denis Diderot
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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
Voltaire
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God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
Voltaire
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Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
Denis Diderot
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Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies. (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)
Voltaire
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The passions are the voice of the body.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
Rene Descartes
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