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To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

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God created sex. Priests created marriage.

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Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.

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

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Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

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This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

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All is but illusion and disaster.

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When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

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

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The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

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We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

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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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What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

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Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

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If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

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We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

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