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| The atheists are for the most part impudent and misguided scholars who reason badly, and who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis of the eternity of things and of inev | | Atheism | |
| The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. | | Uncategorized | |
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| The best way to become boring is to say everything. | | Uncategorized | |
| The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it | | Uncategorized | |
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| The fate of a nation is often dependent upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister. | | Uncategorized | |
| The first priest was the first rogue who met the first fool | | Uncategorized | |
| The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks | | Uncategorized | |
| The history of human opinion is scarcely anything, more than the history of human errors | | History | |
| The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. | | Uncategorized | |
| The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself. | | Uncategorized | |
| The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. | | Uncategorized | |
| The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great. | | Pride | |
| The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all. | | Books | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us | | Uncategorized | |
