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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?

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History never repeats itself. Man always does.

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The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.

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A witty saying proves nothing.

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Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

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Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

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Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

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I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.

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

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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

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We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

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The road to the heart is the ear

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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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You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

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No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

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