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Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
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God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
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I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
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It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
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He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
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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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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Common sense is not so common.
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History should be written as philosophy.
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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
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In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
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Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.
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The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
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All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
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It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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