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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

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It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.

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The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.

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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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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

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Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?

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My life is a struggle.

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He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.

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The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

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God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

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Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

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A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.

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Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

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A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

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The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

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

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You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

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Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

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England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

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