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I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly…

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Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance…
The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.
If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen…
There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.
There is no joy in possession without sharing.
They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a…
They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as…
[N]o party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

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