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Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

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You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

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He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

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War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

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It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.

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We are rarely proud when we are alone.

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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 was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

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Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.

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One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

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A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

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To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

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If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

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There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

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We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

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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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To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them.

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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

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