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

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All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

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There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.

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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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

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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother.

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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

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