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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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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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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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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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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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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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