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Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.

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

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Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.

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It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

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Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

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The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

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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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The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

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Fear could never make virtue.

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

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So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

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History is the study of the world's crime

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The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

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All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

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

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Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

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