"It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books."
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"Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting."
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"The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great."
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"Virtuous men alone possess friends."
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"History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up."
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"It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it."
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"The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in."
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"Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons."
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"A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion."
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"The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force."
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"Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?"
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"A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age."
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""You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin."
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"There are men who can think no deeper than a fact."
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"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason."
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"Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada."
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"Will is wish, and liberty is power."
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"History is the lie commonly agreed upon."
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"In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten."
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"In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice."
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