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God created women only to tame men.

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Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

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The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.

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It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

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

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Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

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The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

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In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

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A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.

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I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

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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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Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

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Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

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The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.

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The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

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He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.

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All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

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Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

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Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

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If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

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