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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

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There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

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Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

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All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

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We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

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Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.

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Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.

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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

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There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

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Once the people begin to reason, all is lost

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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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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.

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Fame is a heavy burden.

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Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way.

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Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

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For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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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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The superfluous is the most necessary.

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