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A good imitation is the most perfect originality

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We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

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In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

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Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

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The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

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So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

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It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.

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Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.

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It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

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The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

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

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Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.

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Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion

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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

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War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

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A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

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The more a man knows, the less he talks.

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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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