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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
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My life is a battle.
[ Life and Living ]
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My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it.
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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.
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Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.
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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.
[ Patience ]
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Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
[ Prejudice ]
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Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.
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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.
[ Self-love ]
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Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
[ Idleness ]
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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother.
[ Superstition ]
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Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.
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Tears are the silent language of grief.
[ Tears ]
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
[ Government ]
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The best is the enemy of the good.
[ Excellence ]
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The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
[ Frankness ]
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The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
[ Opinions ]
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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
[ Surprises ]
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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
[ Pride ]
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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
[ Character ]
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The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.
[ Churches ]
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The public is a ferocious beast. One must either chain it up or flee from it.
[ People ]
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The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.
[ Punishment ]
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The superfluous is very necessary.
[ Necessity ]
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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.
[ Freedom ]
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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
[ Reason ]
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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
[ Creation ]
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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.
[ Thoughts and Thinking ]
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This poem will never reach its destination. [On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity]
[ Poetry and Poets ]
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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
[ Vice ]
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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.
[ Truth ]
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
[ Courtesy ]
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
[ Death and Dying ]
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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.
[ Truth ]
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Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
[ Manners ]
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
[ Life and Living ]
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We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe only truth.
[ Respectability ]
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Weakness on both sides is, the motto of all quarrels.
[ Argument ]
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What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.
[ Work ]
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Work is often the father of pleasure.
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You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.
[ Writers and Writing ]
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You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.
[ Devil ]
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