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Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

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History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

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The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

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The best way to be boring is to include everything.

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History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

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He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.

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He who seeks truth should be of no country.

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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

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The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

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Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

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Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

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We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

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The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.

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Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

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Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

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People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

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A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

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

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