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Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

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All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

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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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Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

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I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.

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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

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Love truth, and pardon error.

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Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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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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There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.

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All is but illusion and disaster.

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Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

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I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

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The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

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All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

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‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

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