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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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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

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The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

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The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

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Perfect is the enemy of good.

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Common sense is not so common.

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How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

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The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.

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You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

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In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

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Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

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All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

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In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

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Better is the enemy of good.

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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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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

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The perfect is the enemy of the good.

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He is lifeless that is faultless.

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

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Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

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