It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

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History should be written as philosophy.

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Better is the enemy of good.

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This self-love is the instrument of our preservation

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If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

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

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We cannot wish for that we know not.

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In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

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The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

By : Voltaire

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