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" Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. "

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" Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels. "

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" To hold a pen is to be at war. "

" 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. "

" Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him. "

" I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil. "

" God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. "

" Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? "

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" Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. "

" He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise. "

" Fear follows crime and is its punishment. "

" Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. "

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" When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. "

" We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. "

" I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms. "

" I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it. "

" The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. "

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

" This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it. "

" The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything. "

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