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A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

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It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

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A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

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The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

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We cannot wish for that we know not.

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The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

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An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace

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A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.

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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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In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

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Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

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Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

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The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.

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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

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He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

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All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

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The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

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Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.

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