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- All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of…
- Almost all life depends on probabilities.
- Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
- It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
- 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 -…
- 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 the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
- Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
- All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
- We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
- Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
- He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
- 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…
- All styles are good except the tiresome kind.
- I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
- There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
- 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…
- Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
- I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the…
- And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and…
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