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~ Illusion is the first of the pleasures ~

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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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~ Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ~

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~ Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination ~

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~ Love truth, and pardon error. ~

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~ It is not known precisely where angels dwell - whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode. ~

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~ The multitude of books is making us ignorant. ~

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~ Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes in the twinkling of an eye, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delights of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed. I shall love you until I die. ~

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~ What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. ~

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~ He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise. ~

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~ Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference ~

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~ Injustice in the end produces independence. ~

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~ History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions. ~

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~ History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up. ~

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~ History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction. The history of man's ideas is nothing more than the chronicle of human error. ~

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