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An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

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

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The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.

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We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

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The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

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Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

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The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.

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Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

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War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

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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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A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

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I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.

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To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them.

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The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.

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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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