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We are rarely proud when we are alone.

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Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

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

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A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

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Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.

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We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

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Only your friends steal your books.

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Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.

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If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

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Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.

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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

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Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.

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The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

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Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

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Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

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