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

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Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

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A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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This is no time to be making new enemies.

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

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It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

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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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We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

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Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

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It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

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I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.

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The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.

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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

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The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.

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Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.

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The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

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History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

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