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Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.

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There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.

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The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

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The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.

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Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

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

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The best is the enemy of the good.

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When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.

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It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

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The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.

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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?

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It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

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

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

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Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.

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It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

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The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

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