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"Shall I not render a service to men in speaking to them only of morality? This morality is so pure, so holy, so universal, so clear, so ancient, that it seems to come from God himself, like the light which we regard as the first of his works. Has he not given men self-love to secure their preservation; benevolence, beneficence, and virtue to control their self-love; the natural need to form a society; pleasure to enjoy, pain to warn us to enjoy in moderation, passions to spur us to great deeds, and wisdom to curb our passions?"
Philosophy
"I loved him as we always love for the first time, with idolatry and wild passion."
Love
"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."
God
"Mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another."
History
"Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats."
Positivity
"He showed, in a few words, that it is not sufficient to throw together a few incidents that are to be met with in every romance, and that to dazzle the spectator the thought should be new, without being farfetched; frequently sublime, but always natural; the author should have a thorough knowledge of the human heart and make it speak properly; he should be a complete poet, without showing an affectation of it in any of the characters of his piece; he should be a perfect master of his language, speak it with all its pruity and with the utmost harmony, and yet so as not to make the sense a slave to the rhyme. Whoever, added he, neglects any one of these rules, though he may write two or three tragedies with tolerable success, will never be reckoned in the number of good authors."
Art
"Better is the enemy of good."
Enemy
"I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom."
Truth
"Business is the salt of life."
Business
"I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one's very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?"
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"Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky."
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"To marry a fool is to be no fool."
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"A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it."
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"Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness."
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"The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass."
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"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."
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"It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is."
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"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool."
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"Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool."
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"There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon."
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