A witty saying proves nothing.
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All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
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All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
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Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
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Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Better is the enemy of good.
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By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
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Clever tyrants are never punished.
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Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
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Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.
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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
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Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
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Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.
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Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
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Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.
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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.
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He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
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I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.
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I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
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If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
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In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
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In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
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In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.
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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
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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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It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
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It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
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Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
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Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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My life is a struggle.
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Nature has always had more force than education.
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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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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
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No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
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Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
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Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
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Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
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Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.
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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Society therefore is an ancient as the world.
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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
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Tears are the silent language of grief.
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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
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The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.
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The ear is the avenue to the heart.
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The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
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The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
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The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.
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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
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The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
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The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
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The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything.
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The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
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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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The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.
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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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Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
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We cannot wish for that we know not.
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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
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We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
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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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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
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You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of day? So, O man! because you behold not God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
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