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The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.

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We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

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Men argue. Nature acts.

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A witty saying proves nothing.

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Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

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The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.

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

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Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

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The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.

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The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

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

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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

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God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

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A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

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Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

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He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

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For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.

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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

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