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Encyclopdistes Inspirational Quotes (1045)

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Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.
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I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.
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Prejudice is opinion without judgement.
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God created sex. Priests created marriage.
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You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
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You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.
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History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.
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Society therefore is an ancient as the world.
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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.
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Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.
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Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
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The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.
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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
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Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws they either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race.
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The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.
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When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.
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Love truth, and pardon error.
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In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.
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Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.
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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
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There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.
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Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.
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The prudent man does himself good the virtuous one does it to other men.
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History should be written as philosophy.
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