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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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History never repeats itself. Man always does.

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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

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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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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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It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

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

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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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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

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Happiness is not the portion of man.

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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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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

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Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

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We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.

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Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

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We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

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The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

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The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

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I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

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