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Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

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We only half live when we only half think.

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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

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Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

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The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.

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A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.

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The more you know, the less sure you are.

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To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.

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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.

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

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

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

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To achieve a goal, a dream, a wish, you must plan it out for success!

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Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

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