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He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

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It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

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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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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

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So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

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Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.

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To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

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If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

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It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

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A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.

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

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The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.

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Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.

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A small number of choice books are sufficient.

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History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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Perfect is the enemy of good.

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