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Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

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History should be written as philosophy.

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

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This is no time to be making new enemies.

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I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.

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I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

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Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

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Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

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Better is the enemy of good.

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Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

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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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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

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This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

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To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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