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What can I hope when all is right?

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It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.

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A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.

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Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

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Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

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Man is free the moment he wants to be.

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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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The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.

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Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

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Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

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When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

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Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.

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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

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

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Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.

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I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.

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The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

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Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.

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If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

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