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Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

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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 sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

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

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

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I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

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I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

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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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I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity.

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Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

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The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

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A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

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History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

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To hold a pen is to be at war.

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No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives.

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

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Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

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