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You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

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Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

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If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

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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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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

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I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

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I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.

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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

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Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

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The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

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The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

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Friends should be preferred to kings.

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Change everything except your loves.

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I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

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The road to the heart is the ear

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