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God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.

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What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

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Friends should be preferred to kings.

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Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

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A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

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When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon.

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Work is often the father of pleasure.

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Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

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He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.

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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

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We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

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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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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

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A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.

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I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.

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Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

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You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

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I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?

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Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

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