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It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

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Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

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Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

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The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

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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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A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.

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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

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The best way to be boring is to include everything.

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It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.

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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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Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

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

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To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

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One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

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Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.

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It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.

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How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!

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