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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

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Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

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

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I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?

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All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

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Happiness is not the portion of man.

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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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So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

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Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.

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Wine is the divine juice of September.

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What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

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You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.

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Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.

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Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

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Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

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