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The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

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Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?

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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

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We are all guilty of the good we did not do

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The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

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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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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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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

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Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

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Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

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

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The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.

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Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

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Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

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I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

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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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Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

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