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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.
• It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age.
• War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
• It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.
• Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

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