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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

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One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

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If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

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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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Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

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

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When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?

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We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

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Minds differ still more than faces.

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"You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin.

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The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

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Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.

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Go get yourself crucified and then rise on the third day.

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Now is not the time for making new enemies.

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He who seeks truth should be of no country.

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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

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