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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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Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

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A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

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Go get yourself crucified and then rise on the third day.

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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

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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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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

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The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

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I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

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Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

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Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

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Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

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Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

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God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.

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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

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You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason.

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The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.

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It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

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All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

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