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When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
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There has never been a perfect government, because men have passions and if they did not have passions, there would be no need for government.
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The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.
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The progress of the rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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The first who was king was a fortunate soldier Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother.
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Right now I think censorship is necessary the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
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People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.
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Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
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Only now did I become throughly acquainted with the seducer of our people. It is not the inequality which is the real misfortune, it is the dependance.
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Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
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Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Le sens commun n'est pas si commun (Common sense is not so common)
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It is not known precisely where angels dwell-whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
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In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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If this world were what it seems it should be, it is clear that it would be impossible for one man to enslave another.
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If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.
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I may not believe in what you say, but I will die for your right to do so.
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