"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them."
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"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero."
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"Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?"
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"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."
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"I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race."
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"He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead."
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"It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him."
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"The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous."
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"Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors."
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"It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster."
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"Language is a very difficult thing to put into words."
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"It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection."
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"Everything's fine today, that is our illusion."
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"How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted."
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"The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it."
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"Love truth, but pardon error."
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"Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats."
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"Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes."
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"One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence."
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