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/ page 1160 of 1205 /The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
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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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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
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The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
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Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
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Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.
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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
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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.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
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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.
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A witty saying proves nothing.
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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
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