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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

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A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.

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It is up to us to cultivate our garden.

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Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

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Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

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He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.

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All is but illusion and disaster.

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History is fables agreed upon.

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If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

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Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

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Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.

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The more you know, the less sure you are.

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The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.

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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

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Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

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