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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

~Voltaire

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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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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

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I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

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The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

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Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

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The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: November 21st, 1694

Died: May 30th, 1778

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