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" Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound. "
Voltaire
Country
Which
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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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God
" God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. "
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God
" Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him. "
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" The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil. "
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Graces
" I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom. "
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Truth
I Am
" History should be written as philosophy. "
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Written
Philosophy
" The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. "
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Nor
Holy
Empire
" Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. "
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Always
Shade
" I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms. "
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Die
Your
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" Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. "
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Lies
Eulogy
Die
" The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year. "
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Doing
Day
Year
" We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature. "
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Nature
Us
Law
" It is said that the present is pregnant with the future. "
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Pregnant
Future
Said
" The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs. "
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Heart
Mouth
Poorly
" The superfluous, a very necessary thing. "
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Funny
Very
Necessary
" We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. "
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Tongue
Risk
Right
" Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers. "
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Shepherds
Both
Need
" Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? "
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Others
Wise
Learn
" It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one. "
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Man
Risk
Than
" There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times. "
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Which
Men
Times
" Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. "
Voltaire
Never
Two
Will
" When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics. "
Voltaire
Whom
He
Himself
" We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved. "
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Must
Deceive
Being
" I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition. "
Voltaire
Die
Loving
Friends
" Fear follows crime and is its punishment. "
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Follows
Punishment
Crime
" Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. "
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Happy
Man
Abuse
" To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth. "
Voltaire
Truth
Respect
Living
" The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice. "
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Laws
Tyrant
Sovereign
" We are rarely proud when we are alone. "
Voltaire
Alone
Rarely
Proud