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To hold a pen is to be at war.

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Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.

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We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

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Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

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I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.

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A good imitation is the most perfect originality

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

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The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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We must cultivate our own garden.

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Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

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If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

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Historians are gossips who tease the dead

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I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little

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God created woman to tame man.

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Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.

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Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.

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I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.

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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

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