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The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

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To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.

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Historians are gossips who tease the dead

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The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

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The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

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Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!

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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.

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Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

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Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.

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Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

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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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To hold a pen is to be at war.

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A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.

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Minds differ still more than faces.

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It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

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Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

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Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.

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Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

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He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

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