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It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

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Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.

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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 atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

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Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

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Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.

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The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

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The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

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Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

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What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.

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We are rarely proud when we are alone.

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If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.

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The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

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Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

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I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

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Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

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