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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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It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

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A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.

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If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

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History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

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Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

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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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He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

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We must cultivate our own garden.

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He is lifeless that is faultless.

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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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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

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

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Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.

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Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

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