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Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

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The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

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The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

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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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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

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He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

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The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

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You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

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Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

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The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

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Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

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

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Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.

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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

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Happiness is not the portion of man.

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Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.

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

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We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

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Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.

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It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

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