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The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.

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The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.

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Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

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History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

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Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

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Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

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Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.

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If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

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I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.

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Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

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To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

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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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Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

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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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Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

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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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History should be written as philosophy.

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The ear is the avenue to the heart.

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