Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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