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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

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We are all guilty of the good we did not do

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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

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A good action is preferable to an argument.

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Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

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There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

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There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

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Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it

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Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

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Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

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You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

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History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

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Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

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The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

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The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.

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It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

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Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

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