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The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

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I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

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It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.

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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

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I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

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I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little

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It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

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

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What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

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Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.

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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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All is but illusion and disaster.

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Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

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The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

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Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

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Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

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Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

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My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.

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