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Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

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The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.

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There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.

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A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.

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The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

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You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.

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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

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The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

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He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

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Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.

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Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

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the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run.

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We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

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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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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

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Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

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A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.

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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

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