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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.
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Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
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The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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