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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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One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

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I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

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

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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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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

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Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.

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People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

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I have wanted to kill myself a million times, but somehow I am still in love with life.

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

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Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?

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The more a man knows, the less he talks.

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

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Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

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A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

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Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you say. What? A ferocious animal has sucked the blood of my relatives. I tell you to rid yourselves of this beast, and you ask me what you shall put in its place ?

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The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

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There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.

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

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Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

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