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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.
In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.
The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.
A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.
Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.
Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.
If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.
One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.
Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.
Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.
He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.
It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?
Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.
We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.
Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.
He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.
By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that.
my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame
Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.
God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.
It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.
A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?
If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.
We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.
I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.
It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions
A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.
We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.
Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion