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~ When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. ~

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~ Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. ~

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~ It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. ~

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~ Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need ~

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~ Work is often the father of pleasure. ~

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~ Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. ~

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~ How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite. ~

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~ Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother. ~

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~ Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother. ~

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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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~ When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics ~

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~ It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong ~

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~ Prejudices are what fools use for reason. ~

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~ Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. ~

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~ Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity ~

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