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Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

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Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

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Paradise is where I am

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All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

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History is the lie commonly agreed upon.

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What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

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If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.

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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

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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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If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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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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All is but illusion and disaster.

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The superfluous is very necessary.

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Clever tyrants are never punished.

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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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Minds differ still more than faces.

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Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

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Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

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It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

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