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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

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You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

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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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The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

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All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

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Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

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It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.

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What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

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The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

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Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

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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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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

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Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

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The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

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He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

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It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

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

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