"Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life."
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"The superfluous is very necessary."
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"To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back."
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"If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero."
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"No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives."
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"An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others."
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"Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way."
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"But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight."
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"I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests."
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"When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself."
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"It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly."
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"All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them."
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"Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged."
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"I also know that we should cultivate our gardens."
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"A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic."
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"It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms."
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"It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?"
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"If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday."
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"They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that."
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"Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated."
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