Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

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A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

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Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

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The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

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The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

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In politics I am growing indifferent - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home.

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All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

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Hamlet is a coarse and barbarous play. One might think the work is the product of a drunken savage's imagination.

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