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Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.

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We only half live when we only half think.

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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

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The Deluge: A punishment inflicted on the human race by an all-knowing God, who, through not having foreseen the wickedness of men, repented of having made them, and drowned them once for all to make them better - an act which, as we all know, was accompanied by the greatest success.

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Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

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Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

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Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

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You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

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Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

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Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

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Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.

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He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.

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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

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Tears are the silent language of grief.

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

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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

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All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

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The superfluous is very necessary.

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