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Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

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Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

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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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Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

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Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.

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One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

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Los Padres have everything and the people have nothing; 'tis the masterpiece of reason and justice. For my part, I know nothing so divine as Los Padres who make war on Kings of Spain and Portugal and in Europe act as their confessors; who here kill Spaniards and at Madrid send them to Heaven.

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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

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If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

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We are rarely proud when we are alone.

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In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

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

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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

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Historians are gossips who tease the dead

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Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

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