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Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

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It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

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When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

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A good action is preferable to an argument.

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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

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

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Friends should be preferred to kings.

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All is but illusion and disaster.

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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

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

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All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

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It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

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It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

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The perfect is the enemy of the good.

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Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

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I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

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He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

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The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

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