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" Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson. "

Voltaire

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Man

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" Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. "

" Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. "

" Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel. "

" Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. "

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" The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice. "

" If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated. "

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" What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking. "

" Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. "

" The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death. "

" The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil. "

" 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. "

" In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation. "

" Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. "

" It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. "

" The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. "

" The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. "

" All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women. "

" The best is the enemy of the good. "

" Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. "

" Everything's fine today, that is our illusion. "

" The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason. "

" The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days. "

" Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool. "