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History is the lie commonly agreed upon.

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It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

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He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

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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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Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

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The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

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All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.

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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

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Man is free the moment he wants to be.

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War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

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Paradise is where I am

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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

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Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion

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Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

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Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

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Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.

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The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

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Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.

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There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

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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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