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"The superfluous, a very necessary thing."

"There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times."

"This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it."

"Thou sleepest, Brutus, and yet Rome is in chains."

"To be at peace in crime! ah, who can thus flatter himself."

"To them it seemed that the gifts of an enemy were to be dreaded."

"Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors."

"We cannot wish for that we know not."

"We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved."

"What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous."

"What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking."

"Your destiny is that of a man, and your vows those of a god."

"Your Majesty may think me an impatient sick man, and that the Turks are even sicker."

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

"No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking."

"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong."

"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."

"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."

"He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead."

"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."

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