"Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy."
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"We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved."
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"You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world."
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"Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil."
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"The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days."
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"Fear could never make virtue."
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"If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness."
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"Wine is the divine juice of September."
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"He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice."
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"The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted."
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"Mortals are equal; their mask differs."
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"I have wanted to kill myself a million times, but somehow I am still in love with life."
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"Let us confess it: evil strides the world."
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"To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd."
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"Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."
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"History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction."
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"In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca."
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"The composition of a tragedy requires testicles."
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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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"The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice."
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