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It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

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You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.

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The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

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Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

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Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.

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Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

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

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Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

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

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Wine is the divine juice of September.

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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

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Will is wish, and liberty is power.

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A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

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The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

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The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.

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Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

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