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Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.

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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

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We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

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Better is the enemy of good.

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Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

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The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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History should be written as philosophy.

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Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

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Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

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The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

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Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

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It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

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Work is often the father of pleasure.

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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

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Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

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The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

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