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The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.

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Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

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You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.

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A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

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We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.

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We only half live when we only half think.

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The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

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Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

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Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

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There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

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The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

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Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

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Work is often the father of pleasure.

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