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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

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Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

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Work is often the father of pleasure.

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I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.

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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

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Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.

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Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!

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But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

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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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Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

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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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I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

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What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

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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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One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

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Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

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Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

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Historians are gossips who tease the dead

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Almost all life depends on probabilities.

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