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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
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There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.
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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.
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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
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The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
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The way to become boring is to say everything.
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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
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The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
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The secret of being boring is to say everything.
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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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The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
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The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it.
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The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
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The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
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The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.
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The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.
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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.
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The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.
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The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an Empire.
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The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
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The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
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The ear is the avenue to the heart.
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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
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The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.
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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
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