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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
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We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
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Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.
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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
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True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.
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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
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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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