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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the…
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and…
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Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous…
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction…
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those…
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Don't have children: they deform women's bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.
— Samuel Johnson
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To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.
— Franz Grillparzer
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Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.
— John Flavel
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There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that…
— Erasmus Darwin
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They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
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Bidding the wizard farewell, he turned to his daughter, who held up her finger and said, “Daddy, look — one of the…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do…
— William Carlos Williams
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