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Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

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It takes twenty years to bring man from the state of embryo, and from that of a mere animal, as he is in his first infancy, to the point when his reason begins to dawn. It has taken thirty centuries to know his structure; it would take eternity to know something of his soul: it takes but an instant to kill him.

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All the passions die with the years; self-love alone never dies.

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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

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Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

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Where is the prince sufficiently educated to know that for seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm?

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What are you, Nature? Live in you? But I have been searching for you for fifty years, and have never been able to find you.

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Who are you, Nature?
I live in you;
for fifty years I have been seeking you,
and I have not found you yet.

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