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Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

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Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

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The way to become boring is to say everything.

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Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.

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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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One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

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Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

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Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.

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The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.

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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

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We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

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Tears are the silent language of grief.

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

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All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

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Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

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The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.

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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

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We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

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He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.

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