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I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

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Clever tyrants are never punished.

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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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The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.

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the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run.

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No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

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Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?

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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

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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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Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.

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God created woman to tame man.

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Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

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Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

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We are all guilty of the good we did not do

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The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.

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One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

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The best way to be boring is to include everything.

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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

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The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

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had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

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