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Correspondent Inspirational Quotes (1588)

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When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.
Voltaire
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To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.
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We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.
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It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
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Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.
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Opinion is called the queen of the world it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.
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Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.
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The more you know, the less sure you are.
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When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.
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Virtuous men alone possess friends.
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I have no more than twenty acres of ground, he replied, the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want.
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The best is the enemy of the good.
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Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.
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My life is a struggle.
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Happiness is a good that nature sells us.
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In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.
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An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.
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Paradise was made for tender hearts hell, for loveless hearts.
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The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.
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He is lifeless that is faultless.
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A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
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Clever tyrants are never punished.
Voltaire
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