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Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.
Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.
Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.
God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.
Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.
Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.
Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.
You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.
If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.
It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.
Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.
Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!
I hate women because they always know where things are.
Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.
All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.
Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Go get yourself crucified and then rise on the third day.
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.
The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.
There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.
It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.
Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.
Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.
The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.
It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.
To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.