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An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.

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He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.

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As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.

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The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.

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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

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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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It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

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In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

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If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

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God created women only to tame men.

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The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

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Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

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You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

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Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

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It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

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Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing

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Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

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