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A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.

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This is no time to make new enemies.

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Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

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History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

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The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

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

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I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

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Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

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The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.

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The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.

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

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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

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Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

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