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God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest. (Voltaire)
She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying. View quote
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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age. View quote
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To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart. View quote
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The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage. View quote
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This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity. View quote
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He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain. View quote
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It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color. View quote
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When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? View quote
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself. View quote
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I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests. (Voltaire)
But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight. View quote
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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero. View quote
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Those who are absent, by its means become present it (mail) is the consolation of life. View quote
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It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music. View quote
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I also know that we should cultivate our gardens. View quote
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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left. View quote
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When he who hears doesn't know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks doesn't know what he himself means that is philosophy. View quote
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... it would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice. View quote
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Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is. View quote
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I envy animals for two things their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them. (Voltaire)
Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life. View quote
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Your destiny is that of a man, and your vows those of a god. View quote
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It is with books as with men A very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. View quote
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I know of no great man except those who have rendered great services to the human race. View quote
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