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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

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Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

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The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

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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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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

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We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

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He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

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You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

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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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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

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It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.

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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

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Minds differ still more than faces.

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History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

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Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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There can be no happiness without good health

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