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Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

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

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The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

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I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

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Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

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

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Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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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 ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

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

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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

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Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

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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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A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.

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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

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All is but illusion and disaster.

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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

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