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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

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Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

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Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you say. What? A ferocious animal has sucked the blood of my relatives. I tell you to rid yourselves of this beast, and you ask me what you shall put in its place ?

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I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

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To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them.

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Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.

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To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.

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Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

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Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

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There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

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Perfect is the enemy of good.

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You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.

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Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are not. It would be very comic that one part of the world was arranged, and the other were not; that one part of what happens had to happen and that another part of what happens did not have to happen. If one looks closely at it, one sees that the doctrine contrary to that of destiny is absurd; but there are many people destined to reason badly; others not to reason at all others to persecute those who reason.

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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

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