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Friends should be preferred to kings.

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So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

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He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

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The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

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To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.

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We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

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All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

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Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

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It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.

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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

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Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.

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True power and true politeness are above vanity.

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They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that.

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Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

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God created sex. Priests created marriage.

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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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