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A long dispute means that both parties are wrong
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A witty saying proves nothing.
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All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.
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All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference.
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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
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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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Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
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As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
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By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
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Common sense is not so common.
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Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.
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Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.
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Exaggeration is the inseparable companion of greatness.
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Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.
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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.
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He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.
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History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
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How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
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I know of no great man except those who have rendered great services to the human race.
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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.
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I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
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I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
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In this country it's a good thing to kill an admiral now and then to encourage the others.
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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.
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It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
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It is only through timidity that states are lost.
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Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.
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Let us work without theorizing, 'Tis the only way to make life endurable.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
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May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
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Men argue, nature acts.
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