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We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.

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Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!

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A small number of choice books are sufficient.

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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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Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

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Injustice in the end produces independence.

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

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Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

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All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

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

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Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

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We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

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The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.

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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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When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

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It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.

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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

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The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

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Writing is the painting of the voice.

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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

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