Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

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The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.

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The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.

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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

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Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

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The first who was king was a fortunate soldier Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

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Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

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The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

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