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had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

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The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.

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An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

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He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

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Will is wish, and liberty is power.

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Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

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Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

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my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame

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Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.

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All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

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Tears are the silent language of grief.

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‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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The best is the enemy of the good.

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Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

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It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

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Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell.

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The superfluous is very necessary.

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Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

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