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Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.
The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.
As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
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Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.
Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.
Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.
Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois
Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.
I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.
History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.
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.
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it
The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.
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To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.
