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"I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly."
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"If a moneyed man had a "corny mind, a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen!"
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"An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!"
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"A country where women are not free has no chance ever to be something good and respectable!"
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"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."
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"Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds."
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"Injustice in the end produces independence."
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"The Jews are an ignorant and barbarous people, who have long united the most sordid avarice with the most detestable superstition and the most invincible hatred for every people by whom they are tolerated and enriched."
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"Society therefore is an ancient as the world."
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"But these were essentially the accoutrements that appeal to all people who are not actually rich but who want to look rich, though all they manage to do is look like each other: damasks, ebony, plants, rugs and bronzes, anything dark and gleaming-everything that all people of a certain class affect so as to be like all other people of a certain class. And his arrangements looked so much like everyone else's that they were unremarkable, though he saw them as something truly distinctive."
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"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
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"There never were two opinions alike in all the world no more than two hours or two grains: the most universal quality is diversity."
Diversity
"Had I been placed among those nations which are said to live still in the sweet freedom of nature's first laws, I assure you I should very gladly have portrayed myself here entire and wholly naked.Thus, reader, I am myself the matter of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and vain a subject."
Freedom
"There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened."
Fear
"It is not death, it is dying that alarms me."
Death
"It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully."
Being
"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."
Virtue
"The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose."
Purpose
"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself."
Being
"Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own."
Courage
"We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany."
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