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"The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything."

"That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future."

"The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever."

"What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!"

"No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign."

"It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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