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1. “A long dispute means that both parties are wrong.”
2. “A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.”
3. “A witty saying proves nothing.”
4. “A woman can keep one secret-the secret of her age.”
5. “All is for the best in the best of all possible ways.”
6. “All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.”
7. “All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws.”
8. “All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference.”
9. “All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.”
10. “All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free.”
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11. “All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.”
12. “Almost all life depends on probabilities.”
13. “Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.”
14. “Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.”
15. “Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
16. “As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.”
17. “Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.”
18. “Beauty pleases the eyes only; Sweetness of disposition charms the soul.”
19. “Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.”
20. “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”
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21. “Clever tyrants are never punished.”
22. “Doctors prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of which they know nothing.”
23. “Doctrine of reincarnation is neither absurd nor useless. It is not more surprising to be born twice than once.”
24. “Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.”
25. “Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”
26. “Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”
27. “Dress changes the manners.”
28. “Each player must accept the cards that life deals him or her. But once in hand one must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”
29. “England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.”
30. “Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.”
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31. “Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do.”
32. “Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.”
33. “Every public man pays tribute to malignity, but he is rewarded in honors and gold.”
34. “Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.”
35. “Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.”
36. “Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.”
37. “Fear follows crime and is its punishment.”
38. “God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. Give ourselves the gift of living well”
39. “God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.”
40. “History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.”
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41. “History never repeats itself. Man always does.”
42. “I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.”
43. “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
44. “I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.”
45. “I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.”
46. “I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.”
47. “I know of no great souls except those who have rendered great services to the human race.”
48. “Ice cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.”
49. “Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.”
50. “If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they dwell in peace.”
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51. “Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”
52. “In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.”
53. “In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.”
54. “In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.”
55. “In this best of possible worlds… all is for the best.”
56. “Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.”
57. “Injustice in the end produces independence.”
58. “It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”
59. “It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
60. “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
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61. “It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.”
62. “It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.”
63. “It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.”
64. “It is not known precisely where angels dwell, whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God’s pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.”
65. “It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.”
66. “It is not more surprising to be born twice than once everything in nature is resurrection.”
67. “It is only through timidity that states are lost.”
68. “It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.”
69. “It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.”
70. “It must be slow, for I have been drinking it for sixty-five years and I am not yet dead.”
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71. “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
72. “Labor rids us of three great evils poverty, vice, and boredom.”
73. “Let us cultivate our garden.”
74. “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
75. “Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget tosing in the lifeboats.”
76. “Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.”
77. “Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.”
78. “Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.”
79. “Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”
80. “Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.”
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81. “No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.”
82. “No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”
83. “One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.”
84. “One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.”
85. “One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.”
86. “Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.”
87. “Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.”
88. “Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.”
89. “Our labour preserves us from three great evils, weariness, vice, and want.”
90. “Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.”
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91. “Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.”
92. “Philosophers never stood in need of Homer or the Pharisees to be convinced! that everything is done by immutable! laws; that everything is settled; that everything is the necessary effect of some previous cause.”
93. “Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.”
94. “Prejudice is opinion without judgement.”
95. “Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”
96. “Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.”
97. “Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.”
98. “Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.”
99. “Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.”
100. “Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.”
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101. “So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.”
102. “Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother.”
103. “Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.”
104. “Tears are the silent language of grief.”
105. “The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
106. “The best is the enemy of the good.”
107. “The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.”
108. “The discovery of what is true, and the practice of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy.”
109. “The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.”
110. “The honors due to real genius share.”
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111. “The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.”
112. “The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.”
113. “The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”
114. “The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else’s eyes.”
115. “The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
116. “The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.”
117. “The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”
118. “The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.”
119. “The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.”
120. “The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.”
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121. “The perfect is the enemy of the good.”
122. “The post is the grand connecting link of all transactions, of all negotiations. Those who are absent, by its means become present; it is the consolation of life.”
123. “The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.”
124. “The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.”
125. “The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.”
126. “The secret of being boring is to say everything.”
127. “The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.”
128. “The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.”
129. “There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.”
130. “Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.”
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131. “This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.”
132. “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
133. “Titles are of no value to posterity; the name of a man who has achieved great deeds imposes more respect than any or all epithets.”
134. “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”
135. “To succeed in this world, it is not enough to be stupid, you must be well-mannered.”
136. “To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.”
137. “Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.”
138. “Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.”
139. “Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.”
140. “We are rarely proud when we are alone.”
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141. “We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.”
142. “We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilization.”
143. “We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.”
144. “What a heavy burden is a name that has too soon become famous.”
145. “What is tolerance?, it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly, that is the first law of nature.”
146. “When it is a question of money. everybody is of the same religion.”
147. “Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.”
148. “Will is wish, and liberty is power.”
149. “With great power comes great responsibility.”
150. “Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.”
151. “Work banishes those three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty.”
152. “Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.”
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