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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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Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

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You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

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The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

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The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

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Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way.

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He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

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

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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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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

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I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

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A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.

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The way to become boring is to say everything.

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What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.

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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

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