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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.
A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.
I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.
You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.
the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run.
Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.
Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.
The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.
I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.
History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.
It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
To achieve a goal, a dream, a wish, you must plan it out for success!
I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.
Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.
Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.
Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.
May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.
Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.
Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.
Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.
Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.