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The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

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Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

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A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

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There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.

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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.

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The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

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To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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

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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

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Writing is the painting of the voice.

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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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What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.

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He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

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my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame

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Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.

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

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The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

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