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A small number of choice books are sufficient.

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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

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The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

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If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.

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Man is free the moment he wants to be.

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A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

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I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

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Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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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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Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.

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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

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I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little

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Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

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The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.

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

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So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

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