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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

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A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

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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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Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

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Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

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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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Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

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A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

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Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

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Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

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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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Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

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The ear is the avenue to the heart.

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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

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

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Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

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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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The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

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