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• In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
• It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
• Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the…
• The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
• God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
• One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
• Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
• It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and…
• Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous…
• If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction…
• In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those…
• Don't have children: they deform women's bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.

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