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Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

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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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We cannot wish for that we know not.

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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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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

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I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

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History should be written as philosophy.

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Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

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All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

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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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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: November 21st, 1694

Died: May 30th, 1778

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