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

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The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

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We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

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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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True power and true politeness are above vanity.

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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

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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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To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

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He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.

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History is the study of the world's crime

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Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.

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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

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Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?

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The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.

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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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To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

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Let us help one another to bear our burdens.

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You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

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