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"If a moneyed man had a "corny mind, a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen!"

"A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!"

"An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!"

"Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice!"

"Most of the time it is a good job and a good honour to fight against people's values, because most of the time people's values are irrational and absurd!"

"A country where women are not free has no chance ever to be something good and respectable!"

"Governments stand because people sit; if people stand, governments will sit!"

"It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right."

"For breakfast to be called 'in bed' instead of 'on top of a bed,' the house in which it is about to be eaten has to have at least two rooms (excluding the kitchen); (at least) three, if it has a bathroom."
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"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."

"The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions."

"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion."

"Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco."

"Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society."

"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe."
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