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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

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The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

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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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Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

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Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

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We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

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True power and true politeness are above vanity.

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When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

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If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.

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But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.

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All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.

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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

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The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

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All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

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The more a man knows, the less he talks.

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Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion

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Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.

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War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

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One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.

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I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.

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