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It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.

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It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.

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The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

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Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!

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History is the study of the world's crime

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Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

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All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

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

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Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

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Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

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The man who says to me, "Believe as I do, or God will damn you," will presently say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you."

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The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

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Love truth, and pardon error.

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The ear is the avenue to the heart.

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

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