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The ear is the avenue to the heart.

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Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.

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

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He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

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Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

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Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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

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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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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

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A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.

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Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.

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The more you know, the less sure you are.

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The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

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Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.

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The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

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A good action is preferable to an argument.

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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

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