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" 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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" The multitude of books is making us ignorant. "

" All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God. "

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

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

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

" It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. "

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

" Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just. "

" To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. "

" Fear follows crime and is its punishment. "

" By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property. "

" One great use of words is to hide our thoughts. "

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

" To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth. "

" The superfluous, a very necessary thing. "

" It is said that the present is pregnant with the future. "

" Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity. "

" It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. "

" The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it. "

" The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great. "

" Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable. "

" 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. "

" Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. "

" Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors. "

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

" It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce. "

" 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. "

" Illusion is the first of all pleasures. "