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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

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Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

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Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

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The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

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The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

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Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

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Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

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We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.

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Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.

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The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

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Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!

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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

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There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

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Only your friends steal your books.

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Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.

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How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

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

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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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There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

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