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The way to be a bore is to say everything.

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Wine is the divine juice of September.

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Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

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The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

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Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

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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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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

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If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

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A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.

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If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

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The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

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

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You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

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We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

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Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

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It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

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

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The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

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How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

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