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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

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It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.

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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

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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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History never repeats itself. Man always does.

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Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

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He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

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All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

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Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?

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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

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Wine is the divine juice of September.

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The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

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Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are not. It would be very comic that one part of the world was arranged, and the other were not; that one part of what happens had to happen and that another part of what happens did not have to happen. If one looks closely at it, one sees that the doctrine contrary to that of destiny is absurd; but there are many people destined to reason badly; others not to reason at all others to persecute those who reason.

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Man is free the moment he wants to be.

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The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

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Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.

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Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

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