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Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

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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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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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Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.

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He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.

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What can we say with certainty?

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Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

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A good action is preferable to an argument.

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Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

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Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.

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An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

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Injustice in the end produces independence.

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There are no sects in geometry.

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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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All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

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It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

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Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

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The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

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Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.

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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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