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.
Voltaire
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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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- We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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