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- Best
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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
- Pregnant
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It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
- Home
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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
- Enjoy Life
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The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
- First Law
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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.
- Fools
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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
- First Of All
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
- Judge
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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
- Disease
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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
- Himself
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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
- Feet
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I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
- Proves
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A witty saying proves nothing.
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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
- Good
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
- Men
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Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
- God
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All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.
- Freedom
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Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
- Proud
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
- Nov 07, 2020
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Common sense is not so common.
- Good
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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Numbers
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
- Others
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Better is the enemy of good.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
- Exist
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- Nov 07, 2020
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
- As Much Money
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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
- Enough
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