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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

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Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

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If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

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Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

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I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

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As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

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The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

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If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

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

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The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

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Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

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The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

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The more a man knows, the less he talks.

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The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.

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Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

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I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

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The way to become boring is to say everything.

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A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.

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Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

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