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Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
Topic: Ancestry
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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.
Topic: Censorship
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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
Topic: Christianity
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
Topic: Conformity
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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
Topic: Creativity
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Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
Topic: Crime
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I disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
Topic: Freedom
Source: None
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If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him.
Topic: God
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If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.
Topic: God
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Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
Topic: Guilt
Source: None
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The fate of a nation has often depended on the food or bad digestion of a prime minister.
Topic: History
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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play on the dead.
Topic: History
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The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
Topic: History
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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
Topic: History
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History is just a portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
Topic: History
Source: None
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I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.
Topic: Law
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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.
Topic: Liberty
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Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Topic: Love
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Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
Topic: Manners
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When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.
Topic: Metaphysics
Source: None
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As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
Topic: Miracles
Source: None
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All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
Topic: Morality
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Nature
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Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
Topic: Opinions
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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.
Topic: Originality
Source: None
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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
Topic: Perfection
Source: None
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
Topic: Prejudice
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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
Topic: Pride
Source: None
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The public is a ferocious beast: one must either chain it up or flee from it.
Topic: Public Speaking
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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Topic: Question
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
Topic: Question
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
Topic: Questions
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Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
Topic: Reason
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Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.
Topic: Reform
Source: None
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Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.
Topic: Rest
Source: None
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Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
Topic: Romance
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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother.
Topic: Superstition
Source: None
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Let us work without theorizing, 'Tis the only way to make life endurable.
Topic: Theory
Source: None
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There are truths that are not for all men, nor for all times.
Topic: Truth
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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
Topic: Tyranny
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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
Topic: Virginity
Source: None
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Topic: War
Source: None
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
Topic: Word
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Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Topic: Writers
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