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‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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

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We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

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Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

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Go get yourself crucified and then rise on the third day.

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What can we say with certainty?

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But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.

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He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

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Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

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We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

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Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.

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I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

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It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

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The way to be a bore is to say everything.

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

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Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing

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The best way to be boring is to include everything.

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Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it

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