To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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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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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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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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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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