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

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Fear could never make virtue.

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Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way.

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The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

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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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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

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Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

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Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

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The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

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Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

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A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.

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Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

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Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

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God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

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My life is a struggle.

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The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

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The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

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It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

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