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Wine is the divine juice of September.

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Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

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Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

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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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He who seeks truth should be of no country.

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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

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It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

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Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

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Change everything except your loves.

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Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?

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

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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

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Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

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Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.

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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

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History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

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What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

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