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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.
The way to become boring is to say everything.
It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.
History never repeats itself. Man always does.
Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.
The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.
A small number of choice books are sufficient.
I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.
To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.
Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.
Self love is the instrument of our preservation.
A good imitation is the most perfect originality
True power and true politeness are above vanity.
Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.
Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.
Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.
Nature has always had more force than education.
The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.
Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.
You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.
Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.
Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.
It is only through timidity that states are lost.
I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.
What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.
A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.
Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.
Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.
The best way to be boring is to include everything.
If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.
If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.
The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.
All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.
If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.
Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.
England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.
I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.