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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
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There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.
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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.
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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
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The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
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The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
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The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
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The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.
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The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
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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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The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
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