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| When is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts. | [▲] | [▼] |
| As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. | [▲] | [▼] |
| The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. | [▲] | [▼] |
| The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker. | [▲] | [▼] |
| To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls. | [▲] | [▼] |
| You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time - but most of the time they will make fools of themselves. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. | [▲] | [▼] |
| I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. | [▲] | [▼] |
| The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. | [▲] | [▼] |
| The multitude of books is making us ignorant. | [▲] | [▼] |