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All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

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The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.

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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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The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

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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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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

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When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

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Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

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One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

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Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

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The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

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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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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

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We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

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In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.

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