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To hold a pen is to be at war.

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

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

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

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

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

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

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

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

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

A witty saying proves nothing.

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

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

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

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

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

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

Common sense is not so common.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

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

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

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.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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

Better is the enemy of good.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

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

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

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

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

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

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

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

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

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