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The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

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

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One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

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A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.

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Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

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I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.

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It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.

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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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It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.

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Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

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Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

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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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What is not in nature can never be true.

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Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

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Friends should be preferred to kings.

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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws; they either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race.

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In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.

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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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