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People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

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The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

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

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Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

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He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.

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If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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Let us help one another to bear our burdens.

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Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.

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Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

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Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

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The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

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Friends should be preferred to kings.

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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

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Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

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The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

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I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.

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Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

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Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.

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Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

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