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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

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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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Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

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Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

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The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.

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To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.

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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

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The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.

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Fame is a heavy burden.

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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

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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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Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

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What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

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One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.

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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

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All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

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History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

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