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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

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We are all guilty of the good we did not do

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‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

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

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The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

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The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

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The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

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We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

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The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

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Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

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Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

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Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

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Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

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Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

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Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

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To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

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