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If your little savage were left to himself and to his native blindness, he would in time join the infant’s reasoning to the grown man’s passion—he would strangle his father and sleep with his mother.

The New Yale Book of Quotations

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Et des boyaux du dernier prêtre

The New Yale Book of Quotations

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On peut tromper quelques hommes, ou les tromper tous dans certains lieux & en certain tems [sic], mais non pas tous les hommes dans tous les lieux & dans tous les siècles .

The New Yale Book of Quotations

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In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to be much more able than he.
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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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