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"Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need."
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"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
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"When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty."
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"The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool."
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"Love truth, and pardon error."
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"To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered."
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"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."
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"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us."
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"The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends."
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"When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion."
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