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One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

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War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

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To achieve a goal, a dream, a wish, you must plan it out for success!

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Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most

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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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History never repeats itself. Man always does.

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Dare to think for yourself.

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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

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The best is the enemy of the good.

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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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The way to be a bore is to say everything.

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There are no sects in geometry.

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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

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History is fables agreed upon.

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Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

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The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

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Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

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Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

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He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

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

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