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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

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Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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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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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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Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

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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 opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

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I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.

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Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

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The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

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I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

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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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Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

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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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To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.

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