"If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God."
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"Singing and dancing alone will not advance one in the world. [Fr., Qui bien chante et bien danse fait un metier qui peu avance.]"
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"A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity."
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"And when the relics of humanity left among the Spaniards induced them to forbid their lawyers to set foot in America, what must they have thought of jurisprudence? May it not be said that they thought, by this single expedient, to make reparation for all the outrages they had committed against the unhappy Indians?"
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"For it is in our nature to endure patiently the decrees of fate, but not the ill-will of others."
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"He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king."
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"The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it."
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"If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and there would be neither vanity nor luxury in such a state."
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"Our greatest evil flows from ourselves."
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"The members of a body-politic call it "the state" when it is passive, "the sovereign" when it is active, and a "power" when they compare it with others of its kind. Collectively they use the title "people," and they refer to one another individually as "citizens" when speaking of their participation in the authority of the sovereign, and as "subjects" when speaking of their subordination to the laws of the state."
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"Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain."
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"I only see clearly what I remember."
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"Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow."
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"The world is woman's book. [Fr., Le monde est le livre des femmes.]"
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"Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education."
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"It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have in admitting or denying the reality of the Judgement to come determines the faith of most men in accordance with their hopes and fears."
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"There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, Is it good in itself? In the second, Can it be easily put into practice?"
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"Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination."
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"My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are.... If I want to depict spring, it has to be in wintertime; if I want to describe a beautiful landscape, I must be enclosed within walls; and I have said a hundred times that if I were put in the Bastille, there I would paint a picture of liberty."
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"I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: "Well, let them eat cake"."
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