"The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it."
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"The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week."
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"A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right."
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"the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run."
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"Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe."
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"The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness"
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"An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct."
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"Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us."
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"We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact."
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"Paradise is where I am"
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"You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it."
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"What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them."
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"The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire."
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"If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?"
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"But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor."
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"The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant."
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"It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village."
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"Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient."
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"Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best."
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"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors."
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