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The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

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All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

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Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

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There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.

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Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

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Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

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This is no time to make new enemies.

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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

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If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

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History should be written as philosophy.

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Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.

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There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

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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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If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

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You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.

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Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

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