"It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love."
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"A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady."
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"To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly."
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"We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased."
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"We are rarely proud when we are alone."
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"We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear."
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"The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it."
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"If you wish to converse with me, define your terms."
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"Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent."
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"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."
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"Music is the pathway to the heart."
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"All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free"
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"We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads."
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"I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion."
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"The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error."
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"The Deluge: A punishment inflicted on the human race by an all-knowing God, who, through not having foreseen the wickedness of men, repented of having made them, and drowned them once for all to make them better - an act which, as we all know, was accompanied by the greatest success."
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"Anything too stupid to be said is sung."
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"You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts."
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"The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds."
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"There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?"
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