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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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All children are essentially criminal.
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But how the devil do you think this could harm me?
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Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

L’esprit de l’escalier.

Staircase wit.

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And [with] the guts of the last priest

Let’s shake the neck of the last king.

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To say that man is made up of strength and weakness, of insight and blindness, of pettiness and grandeur, is not to draw up an indictment against him: it is to define him.
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