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Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way.

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Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

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Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.

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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

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The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

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When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?

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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.

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Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

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The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.

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I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

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It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

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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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Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

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The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.

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I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

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A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

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The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.

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