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(861 votes)  I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

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(830 votes)  It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

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(795 votes)  Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

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(773 votes)  God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

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(749 votes)  My prayer to God is a very short one: ''O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous!'' God has granted it.

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(621 votes)  If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

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(572 votes)  In this country it's a good thing to kill an admiral now and then to encourage the others.

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(570 votes)  Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

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(551 votes)  It is not known precisely where angels dwell -- whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

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(549 votes)  By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

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(549 votes)  Men argue, nature acts.

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(547 votes)  Weakness on both sides is, the motto of all quarrels.

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(543 votes)  The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

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(538 votes)  The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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(525 votes)  We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe only truth.

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(521 votes)  Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

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(521 votes)  It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

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(521 votes)  Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung

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(519 votes)  Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

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(504 votes)  He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

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(503 votes)  Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.

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(499 votes)  When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion,

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(495 votes)  History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

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(492 votes)  You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

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(491 votes)  The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.

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(489 votes)  One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

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(486 votes)  Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

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(484 votes)  To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

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(484 votes)  Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.

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(483 votes)  The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

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(482 votes)  The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

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(479 votes)  A witty saying proves nothing.

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(474 votes)  Tears are the silent language of grief.

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(470 votes)  What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

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(468 votes)  Change everything except your loves.

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(466 votes)  God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

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(465 votes)  Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

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(464 votes)  Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

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(463 votes)  The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

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(461 votes)  Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

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(459 votes)  The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

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(458 votes)  I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

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(452 votes)  Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.

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(452 votes)  Work is often the father of pleasure.

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(442 votes)  Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

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(439 votes)  The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

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(437 votes)  Common sense is not so common.

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(433 votes)  The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

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(423 votes)  All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.

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(421 votes)  Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth. They even partake of divinity, since to preserve and renew is almost as noble as to create.

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